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our compo winners. Is Hewsons new game all tore? Have you walked off
with a Waf adrive? Find out first ... in Frontlines!
Too hot
to h*n<»l*?
Our llrtlrevitw
copy glowed
like ■ furnnc* —
r* minder* of old ZXBO day
Opos 'suppln-h havejttfl
announced the rctcasi
disk drive
system special Is
designed forth*
Spectrum and
Spectrum-h
As well as plumping
for the smaller size d
the Opus Discovery I
ALL AT C
Hisoft has just released
version 1 . 1 of its C
compiler for the
Spectrum. C is ■ wry
flexible arid easy to learn
language (it says!
that was origir:
ig hed lor writing
operaimg systems. You
•
mejMbnun to learn C hut
its not a beginner's
language. Little em if s in
it can cause big crush
Still, if you're bored
with Havic and fam >
knocking out an
stemoriwo
before tea, Hisoft a re on
f[)S«2) 696421.
;dsi 1 . iliorv — deep
hreaih u peripheral
through eonneeinr,
joystick interface,
|i ii ilk I pruuei port,
monitor output and on-
board power supplv Not
■ •h'! All this will
itbviousiy pin it in direct
competition with the
■Im-v which abo
is an impressive d-f
tr&S, Nil uses the
less rettablc stringy-
floppy method
If you're wo rued
:ihimt the lack i«t support
for the I ) ISO » v try , yo u 1 1
he pleased 10 know thai
Hoots and Memore*
given h their
Itackinjc. Still, kurk ut the
lis 1 1 if supporters
Rot ionics and Sinclair
mere hawking around
1 they launched
their alternatives to the
disk
I nt crested parti.
i why wereti 7 *ve invited
— Ed. t sh< iidd contact
Opus Supplies r>n (l»M26)
3 1 I 1 74.
Don't know wh*l he'm looking ■* happy abtiuC A*
the lirst person tocomplelo HewlOn* dark-*g* 3D
drain*, Av*ion, Colin H»ir« thim on tho lcft| ha*
now gflt to t*c e up- to the nlmoil identic mi
Of .1 gonlo/c. That'll wipe the *mil« off hr.i l«c*<
SLEEP ON IT!
What a load of balls'
They arc, in fact, deadly
spheres rolling around a
com pic*, maze in
Ki re bird's new eame.
Gyrott. it's taken four
mathematicians four and
a half man-years to write
the game — and it shows,
The graphics arc
Qyrvn — not *x »c tly • ball ot Mr* -
stunning bul the game it
so muni Ndwiiu-Iy
boring it'll ElkC lour unit
a half mathematicians
even longer to solve il
That's why bi re bird is
confide nt ly ( 1 fieri ng a
prize Of a Porsche 924 to
someone who cracks il.
( lursc. they're also
saying that cheating is
uuiKissiblc. hut then, you
know whal wcthinl
thai and where to send
your POK lis'
Certainly not a game
worth losing any ntcep
over — in bet
pretty difficult not to
deep over El £9.95
secures tins sleeping
tabid substitute From
I ircbinlofl 01 -72b
l!H;U*.M
OR BUST
This month's "failed
pole- vaults ' award (lot
grabbing the wrong end
of the stick) foe* to
Ma Ian Associate^ I h
complained because we
rihed their fame
I lerpcs or Hnst its 'bug
ridden' thiiwm
iake\ Not that tasteful,
but then neither is the
game. In the interest!
fairness, wc donned the
surgical gloves ami look
another look. As it is
Quilled, we couldn't find
any coding hugs hut
some of the on totems
were so illogical they'd
have given Mr Spock .in
emotional breakdown.
So, apologies to Maim
Associate* for not
pulling quotes round the
\w,rd 'bug*. Hut perhnp.
if theit sense of humour
more developed,
they would nol only have
gut the joke but written .1
siii me in
the first place
S GOT TO BE GORDONS
Now you and your
Spectrum can plug into
1 be power of (he mainv
1 )i rather, Gordon
Micro Ltd, a new
Company from Ayr has
itself launched nolo iMs
market with a product
which claims to give the
Specey owner the power
of ii mainframe
■puter in miniature,
I he Ciordon
Microframc, is not the
prettiest of peripherals.
No doubt, if enough
interest is shown it will
be re-housed in a
designer Mack bos to
make it indistinguishable
irom all other Jvpvccy
add-ons
1 or the ' user
function's mure
important than form.
The Microframc
provides a disk unertaec
plus five 64-way slur
connectors. And if you
don't know what you'd
dowitha'it-vs;i\ slot
connector then you
1 need u
Microframc. There are
much cheaper disk
l on the market
if thins all you're
looking for, hul if y*m*ve
got the cash, Gorooo
Micro can be contacted
,ii )Calend*f Koiid,
I lea th lie Id lilduslrul
I slate. Ayrc K.A8 9PJ
%o limpipevon i child cm ctaih it.
CASSETTE /DATA RECORDER
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Hnofy, accepts samara composer Moos and 5 pm
eclc Also pronde* enc*pi»nni #uo« quality
tot tine ttstentng
BaReues no! included)
£24.95
CHEETAH" SWEET TALKER"
Based an an almpbon* system, program any
*OfO or prvttse. provtfkng unarnfted spot
Now make v jur Spccsium talk
im i LtH.JjD
MEGASOUND
For 40K Spectrum ana ZX SpotHu <
Achieve ■mazing spuria" capabUftet mel
your Spectrum has been lacking Juat pkjg*
into the user port at tno war of your computer
ESSST* £10.95
32K RAMPACK
Upgrade your leK Dl Spectrum
now 1 The Cheetah 33K Rampart
ynpiy plugs into ihe use* port ai ihs
rear oi your computer an] .releases
the memory ir»tantiy pOQ Qc
SPECTHUM JOYSTICK INTERFACE
Simpiy plugs initj '/w user ;-jQft st We rear at
trie computer and accepts any Aran siyta n»y*hck
intruding QuieVshoi and Kemptaon.
Ccmes without reer C 1 1 ^fl
edge connector at L I I .DU
or *th connector wr*cn afrows other
peripherals :o be star-nod
up at
£12.75
&6 WAV EXTENSION
CONNECTOR
0«tan % ©" long extension caore
tnibet Spectrum pw lofurttb
ttn» otsiarced
From ,'(Xif COmputP'
Pntu* irclud* VAT, pD»tag» 4 pecking
Deinrery rwmiaify laoaya
C»pOrt 0»*»rj «l no mr.ua coil
Dealer «nqum»t *aicom*
CMeiaft p>u<li<la avcilabK f rorn (wjncr*4dF
^^=3/3* UIIVWII'Hs) ftumbetows
MOOUMMTH Spectrum dealer*
and xiK good computer stonK-
£7.95
RAT.
Cothmivlioridl pyslitks
art daad" The Cheetah
Remote Action
Tranynritef is the most
ttph&Bcaloa computer
controller evAikabte 1
InJrs red transmission -
30 Theru are no leads
trading memss the
iMngroom Touch
control. oxlremety last,
cam t» used win
Kempsfori compat Hi'
uyrtware Complete
wrti
AERiAL SPLITTER
Cneetah s neat spatter unit
. on 1. 1 re ■> r .i ' a !'.. ..• pM
aliews you to heap your T V and
Dornputef senai «*» plugged *i
without disturbing
the piclbie
£2.25
EXTRA LONG AERIAL LEAD
Omm i 5 kng Our super lead «Mtt alow you to
»ft u*> dHdv (torn . no enable you
to ptay games m inc comfort
OT your am
£1.50
All Cheetah Peripherals have rear edge connectors
for compatibility with all Sinclair accessories
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London £C (I* JL7J T r iO'8JJ4W>P
ret*. 80*a«8
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Could ihi* be curtains for the ZX Microfair? Not
yet, bin (he tveaxlibem at Alexandra Palace was
ik finite] \ showing sign* of shrinkage. A large
curtaincur off about iiqu.irt ir<>t ihc north end of
(he hull.
The real problem is* ihe lack of exhibitors. Mite big
hoys wouldn't he seen dead exhibiting on a wi Mil}
wooden tiiHk. I>in'i Icr trmr. put you off coming to
thenexl fair, ihoujih — without you a little bir of
Sinclair hivlory could die forever, Aiour pkluio
show There arc hottOJ innovative idea* a rut prenfy
of interesting people to meet ( as well tit some
ward onts — but then you don V havr a>tulk to
TroubttsfuKttin' Pete Ed.}.
► Wow, with graphic* like
this It's just a ihimr that
■ photo e en' t do J u s He*
to the laund.
▼A mtflibti of the
Adam* family showing
IOffl« Of him rnm>(
workings. Steve Adam*,
ITS'* vary own hard war*
e x pert 14 hotdin q the X K
expansion unit, now
available from TV
Services of Cambridge
on 0223 356166, lor the
paltry aunt of CI 5.95 a* a
tilt or C 20-95 I Hied Of
course, you could
alw ay 5 tit you r $ in to a
Sp«CCy,
^So, we finally caught up
with hot at the Microfair,
The culprit wli comcicd
red-handed c lute hlng all
your copies of YS
Mogahasic to her chest-
Hnppity, we've now
prised ttiom from her
grasp and despatched
them.
What can we say but a
big BDrreecee to a II our
re a d e rs who ha we waited
■o long lor the sot twara
to super-charge their
Spectrum*.
A s f o r p do r J i 1 1 , .1 1 1 1 1( r
compassion is c.illtid lor
It's not really surprising
the l soft w are of the
standard of YS
Megabasic should send
Her slightly loopy! Of
course, an own greater
madness wo ul d be no t Id
have your own copy.
lNow it's explained why alt speech Synthesizers
sound tike alien iuhrors with a fit of flatulence. And
we'd tell you more about Var Italh H we'd
understopd* word that Daft Ada here was saying.
a, Romantic Robot has
tackled a very
unromantie subject In h»
first garrve, WVrpgier—
maggot racing, tt all
takes place at the
Annual Maggot
Mara tho n and f e aturea
360 screens and six
different locations. You
are one of the four
maggot contenders ki
the most dangerous and
closely-fought contacts
in the insect sporting
calender ft don't beMeve
,i word of (his — fit.)
E5.95 secures your place
in the Maggot Marathon.
SinclairC5
CLOAKROOM |W
A Flushed with his success over the Speccy, Sir Clive
launches: the electric bidet which immediately goet
down the toilet.
WEMM
Old Ed with sore >d.
Wat adr Ivot keep
falling....
At last! The Spcccy
office ground tO a hall
fbi days while arc sorted
through the Wafadrivc
competition eotria*, but
now we can finally
announce ihe winners.
Nobody, out of the
th ousa n d s c i f en l ranis .
came up with the rxtn i
solution to the features
list, so we decided to
aw li id (he prizes to the
ffitlMolafid most
amusing captions,
()l comae, what Roger
m as really saying in the
compo photo it
completely unprintable.
Well, we were throwtn|
a piJe of Wafadrivcs at
him! (tut of course, you
offered some more
original ideas — A.
IhfHiiHctt. suggested
"Only 12 more tocolleci
and J can move onto the
room". Mr* Curul
Wads worth thought
Roger might he saying
""WeTl drop a couple
into the office', ihey
Mid'' Phil lhiy came
up with I he topical
caption — "'I he price fs
n>;hi, to come on
down!" Cheetsfftfl
(>k v> ihey sound a
hi i naff now, hui you
haven't jtnt read
Wafadrivcs keep falling
on my head' for the
thousandth time.
Thanks for all your
entries {ever Mw
Wafadrives on the head
ones - £*(f). — and we're
sorry that you couldn't
all win;. Those of you
who did, however,
should be keeping an eye
open for your
drives. They'll be
dropping in on you KK >n!
Here an the winners,
listed m no particular
order;
I' l Ekoad, I'inJiin. A, M,
nuTiuwtt, Kjinluim; Stephen
. Ciun ["i in h: N , fcn| a j _jj^ v>
Loadon: J Hu.tinn.
Uonyihbvj I I ^tuuir,
SwunvaL Oahil W/jjftwrtrth,
SuiKknmJ I'hil D*T, Ortoutq
I Mrk Rot
Hii-tl- ,,11
Men 1.M1A
RlVnt. fiufMuii. l4n Ik-Jiri
Wirrat. Peiei Rklu?a
Sheffield. I' hd Smilh. Anil
m. Chard;
Ht*rvaJ WittUmu, K w wtow itj
IVmy Davie v HirttnSicJd:
Ektm IK- K<*1. l-ltMijifvnrn.
HoJUnil. I'miy Hunt, f nrnwall
Job* Mi«l». Sindfnrd i*i
;- i ji.I M r f ("Jkim,
Ounlcrmlinc, I ■, . uj51li>
■lie. B ar geddk; Biiut
Paotwj 1 , DnuiiAV I^n Walker
Kuctulalr; U A Own, Bo*
gfefMI
Well done yoti lot!
Spol the r«al Shortocfc. M you can't, you're not go
to get vary tar o n Mt>lt>a u rn« H ouic " • gtm« « bout
th* super VMBvth, ar« you? You're certainly not
going to bo the f if* t to crack th* my sl«ry bee ium
Paul and David Cunningham pot there first. So no w
tell us who's th* dummy!
MMUJU.'IMiL'.MM
Another ttulesiom-
fi/on r t you mean
miUsamtf Edfia home
computing is reached
this month — a hook
with a title more
complex than its subject
matte i
Book of Computers and
Simple Programming.
And it would have to he
ample because it's
written by none other
than Troubleshooting
Pete. Course he did have
a little help from
own Roger Munford and
il Radio DJ.KdU
Temple. (OK,
think I'm in a >
warn tasked Ed)(Whsl
, w it siow about
i ■( >mp!ttcr\ fi n y wq t '
TrouMahot *tin ' Pete)
Published hy lnt<
for the exorbitant tun
hjII lind copies
in most grottv
bookshops, Still, it'll
probably be remain-
dered shortly |
esin buy iwu and start
iiiM fltmvrv
",."
Another busy month on the
H, 1 1 -line. I rill like sohiug your
proMcms ( imstmdefcmamg
them! - Ed ) but only if you
u\e ihe Helpline number on the
dfey* and times given bchiw!
1 irst off w;js a call from J 1111
Sionc of Worcester with a very
com man enquiry. How . he
asks, can I traiisjei my games'
collection to Microdrive*'*
Mmmrnm. Th« ■*■ not a task I
would recommend you tackle
without some sort oil aid. "Ihe
two hits of software I have
tound most useful BTC I rifts'
|- \ press hv Romantic Rohoi
nnd MDlhy Lerm Software,
The first one is the simplest (o
use hui Ml> I can cope with
more programs. It you have
both, it's likely that one will
handle a particular rile type
even if the (tlhcr one cant. Hy
the way Jim, I hope your games
collection doesn't consist of
commercial software because
copying that 10 rmcrodrivc is
.. iUtfusl
Al last, VS Mcgabasic has hit
ihe streets, so I wasn't really
su rpoScd when the calk came
Hood me. m. Michat'l llnt*v ot
Peterbt trough was the first in
with a problem caused by the
Inierl.icc I unit attached 10 his
Specey. Well. Michael, you
need to cuter a Microdrive
command before loading YS
Mcgabasic, Ibis way you let
ihe program know iluii it's
dealing with shadow ROM-
I or example, if you enter the
CAT command before loading
up from cassette and ignore the
error message "MicoHiinvc not
present', this will simply
initialise the shadow ROM as
heirtg present
Michael has picked upon a
problem not covered in the
manual. Nkc one. Michael, If
sou don't understand
something 01 it you think
you've lound another omission
then drop us a line to
Mcgabasic Hugs, 14 Rath hone
Place. London W I P I DE.
I jet's get the other big cock-
up out of the way before going
on. Ivee Tuwersey. from my
home town of Siaines in
Middlesex *potlcd the
dclilxrratc mistake in Tuning
(/pin issue I Ji. Like Lee you
ni.u have noticed thai Line 380
looks rather unfinished- That's
because il is! The en J ol ihe
line ttaa somehow moved two
steps down, tagged rather
forlornly onto The end of Line
4IMK Just move n up and ihe
rest falls into place.
One problem which bothers
quite a loi of you is how to
|ii mi messages on the btittom
two lines of the screen, Mark
Me A iiudt-n of Cilasgow
phoned in to sav that be knows
that PRINT I works hui
wanted to kr.ow if there are any
other met lit ids
Well Mark, you could iry
POKE 23ri59.ii which wijl'givc
you 32x24 print ptwitions. Be
careful. I hough as any CLS or
INPLH commands will crash
the computer. So, before using
any siniihn -commands you
should POKE 23659.2 first
-nd then rc-POKE 23659,0
after the command is finished.
The screen is now yours!
The phones haven't Mopped
ringing about the (fhoftbustert
Hacker s Guide in the March
issue. Mike Parker from
Northumberland found lhat
even after following the
instructions to ihe letter he
could not break in, kl alone get
unlimited busters. I've had a
look and I think ihe gremlins
may have inserted an extra line.
Iry deleting line 145 and see if
thai works. 1 haven't yet had a
chance to give it a test run so let
us know if ii crash lands. The
pn>blem may be that a new
version of the game has
replaced the one we bad. So, if
you do have problems, please
write to the Hacking Away
column at the usual address.
As a life -long self-confessed
non -hacker. I'm not ihe person
to talk to about your hacking
hiccups.
Still, is you've got any other
problems, remember, whoya
gonna call"' I roublcshooiin'
Pete, of course. Catch you on
thephones-
TroubkshcHitin* Pete
Pete j phone lints are open
from 1 0am- tptn and 2-$pm on
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iii'Ui!iivi;
Just when '.■ iu thought
that the Spectrum-*- bad
lulled the add-on
keyboard market,
another easing foi the
rubber keys makes ks
debut. Stranger even
than the lime of Ih
bunch is the colour —
ii'v while. What' 1
Spectrum peripheral thai
ian'l black and isi
three-wheeled washing
machine "
Still, lo make
everyone Feci at home
Micro Board, the
manufacturers have
given it bbek keys.
Shame they also punted
the If iters OH the keys in
- To be fair, they
wul send a set of keys
you can read to anyone
u ho values their ei
light. Think of the fun
you could have re*
defining the key boa rd.
I "he kev board is rather
natly though, as it should
be for 60 green ones. It
bn n2 full travel keys, a
full space bar, 1cm
profile case i.e. flat, an
on / off su tteh (tan V
think what use that
would be— tJ.h\wd
Interface 1
compatibility.
If you're still
interested in a
profeistona] keyboard
for your Speccy and you
don't mind about (he
lack of colour co-
ordination, then the
I aaer could be worth u
look, Give Micro Board
a ring on (0483) 38006.
OfW kvylWWd thnl i;hiiul(J work wrlhTnwaid Two.
The Spectrum
Operating
System
Steve Kramer/Micro
Press E5.95
I his book's shot Mraight
iu the top nf my "what
did I ever do without it'
list. Steve Kramer baa
ii-.ilh taken on ;i meea
tuk in trying to explain
the inner workings ol the
Spectrum's operating
system — and lies done
a tremendous j nb
The first few cha;
provided gentle
im loduelion on how lo
use some of the ROM's
mod useful routines.
You'll find out abooi
prmung techniques,
^-.inning the keyboard,
clearing and scrolling the
screen and how to
control (he I'l.OI,
DRAW and C|K< I f
commands, plus an in
depth Umkal the
cassette routines.
I oottgh there to fill a
win vie book, but there's
riuich more. Interface I
is next tor the full
treatment When it u .
launched it really
tsed the power of
the Speccy but the extra
facilities that it alters
have never yet been Tully
explained — until now
thai is, This book gj
one of the K
akdowasoJ the new
*K ROM that Jve ever
>nd, what's more,
it's mitten in plain
English. There are full
details of how tip use all
the ROM routines, in
Control the micro drives,
the network and the
RS232 port lu fact, it'll
tell you all you could
ever want to know about
the shadow ROM — but
didn't know who loi
Steve Kramer also
steers a course for von
through chant
streams and ports, As
well as showing what
attaches where, he
manages l ■ > ma kc the
whole subject of I O
ports fun with « program
th.ii produces speech by
digital recording.
Yous t probably gol
the idea thai I'm
impressed — and you'd
be right, this b one
mega task that has Ken
.rrH In mi
eonelusion Check it out.
Iimiv Samuel*
HACK/TIG
The column with the
infinite PQKEs. Send
your hacking hints to
Andrew Rennet f f
Hacking Away, Your
Spectrum, 14 Rathbone
Place. London W1PWE.
You'll notice that this month
the POIQB* are getting tnekicr
and trickier as programmetl
become more and more
devious. Kui they still can't
keep a good hacker out. First
or! the mark is Adrian A -.kins
with infinite lives on
l^fumartima. The hypcrloadcr
makes thinga a little tricky
Mi.isni.iii program is
required to get round it:
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E 70
20 FOR n-l TO 14
30 READ a I PRINT n*2V9
99, •
40 NEXT n
SO PAUSE O
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Run this and then start playing
the tape at the first data block
I in .I the program header ) and
press any key to load it Stop
the I ape as soon a,* it's in, then
use these POJCEs:
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£ 32843,26 1 POKE 32920,2
51 « POKE 32829,201 I POKE
32709, 24 3 t POKE 32921,0
i poke 33000,0
Next, to llypcrloaii it, enter
RANDOMIZH USR 327*9
and re-start the tape. It it
loading error occur* rewind
and try av'ain When it loads, it
will not start, 90 for VBvt
enter POKJE4MS3 t x. Then
use RANDOMIZE USR
04A49 and away you
*i tufrc now ready to make I
right Wallyol yourself.
Now it's reach for tin
ticiu — tor anyone having
difficulty with Sky Ranger Ut > m
Microsphere. Paul R*un has
oonte tt) the rescue. He hi
found (he access codes which
allow you 10 reach the higher
levels; I - FNTER, 2 -
MAGIC, 3 PILOT.4-
STOMP,5-PARJSand6-
1 vi
Mark (HiIimih would like to
iL 1 .1 swop. He's offering me
iniiiiiu In is POKEs i<n River
Rescue- Xn POKJi 33420,0
for player I and TDK I
33452,0 for player 2. In
exchange he'd like the POKEs
lor I'wh.tlt Wizard M4 Cyber
Zone, so gel cracking you lot,
N< >w on to 3 couple of
goodies from Karl Humuson.
starting with Si amine "s
Zaxxon. For 255 lives use
POM 5,255. Melbourne
House's i£r> Lancelot is a bit
trickier I or a lot ot lives youMI
need the fc4k ogram:
Sir L.ncilat ■*
I REM
I 1 ■ e ■
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20 read
ekt 4
30 OAT A
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•-5O0O0 tr 5002
POKE •.m N
49,125,91 ,221,
The *s' in line 3(1 should be
replaced with the number
Uvea you want — Karl tells, me
that hVt not sure how high pan
can BO hut he knows that
anything up to 127 wotks
Forward ihe tape to the main
block of code, after Ihe
SC'KI f NS, run ihe program
and then pit) die tape, I'm
oonung Guinevere!
Barrs t eatM has been on an
explotaiojy roisDon in Zombie
Zombie ami rctumod \Mihthc
news ol a lost city, ^i ev, (here
are two cities in the gand I o
^el 10 die Otbei one, you must
load the ga it: 'to
the main menu « nhour pEuying
it. then press P followed by
( Al'S, and an input prompt
i,s ill appear at the bottom of the
icieen 1 inter ( m upper eaae |
SPA( I MAN, then p>
FN TliR. In low er ease type in
SChg and you are ready lodo
haitk- with another dty-fullof
the 1 1 ride at j ( keep an eye open
ft tr TtOHhkshootm ' Fete! —
You may remember that
some months ago I gave the
Infinite lives for Bua-Bytt
ion of Mann Mim-t So
that those ol you with the
Software ; -ion
don 'I feel left out \l Bull has
sennnPOKl 35 142,0 which
duo the same.
11
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UMiiiiiiikfJil
SPECTRUM
SPECTACULAR
> ippcc! Your Spectrum
hoogy lime! Yes, on a
Saturday njgbl last
monih l» cosmic
moment arrived when
iIil winners of the Great
■\ ii i muled Hippodrome
i <mpo joined the
"> s leaiu to ln>p the night
ia The World's
<iesi Ijiso.
TrouWc is. the starry-
eyed (jrciup assembled in
the glum surroundings,
only to discover that we
Had his*, somewhure in
Don't panic — JIT th*fcO pf ict?s not » drop v
the glittery emporium,
ootonh oui Hippo-
drome host hut one of
om winners too*.
After several I) J.
Announcements and a
fniWeta search through
the seething bodies, our
Bd discovered the
missing Graham Thorpe
already tucking info his
Hippo-burgee unaware
crftheefToctiofthe YS
tcarch party)
t iranBtwaa united
with Chi- YcungChoy
andihcy settled dawn to
a teste ot what their
Hippodrome
membership lias to oiler
— spectacular circus
acts, resounding: mu
handovers the next
rnoraing and the chance
i«> sec their very own
graphics mi thai fuiye
video screen, phis a rughl
I at the Waldort Hotel
•dike fhamfHtgn* . . .
hie! — TroublemAkin '
Pftf) Congratulations,
fads!
AND WELL
And living on
\lc niO-.uk-. After
reading of I heir del n t K
in last mo mh's
Fi u o t fin c a, Nordk
thought i t'd heller let us
know that reports of its
death weregreail)
exaggerated. All it had
u as a severe ease of
laryngitis
I he company hasn't
gone inlo liquidation and
didn'1 al am time in the
past. It did have a
communications
problem, however, when
no one could contact the
office tot a five week
period. Hnttsh Telecom
had placed a redirect
at lead line | ti si
when we were trying 10
■ 'ul the situation .
So. if you've recently
bought a Nordic
keyboard, don't panic
Nordic assures us that all
guarantees will be
honoured — they are
determined to make a
clean break with the leaa
than illustrious Fuller
tradition and are
committed to the
computer market
If you want to talk to
them on a line which is
gu,i' »rk(BT
permitting), give them a
rtau on 051-678 9993 or
CALLING MRS.
T
I- ol lowing your
desperate plea in last
month's Forum, a very
kind-hearted Mr Hart of
Surrey has offered to
send you hit brand new
l-uller keyboard free ot
charge! So, Mrs Spring
;il I boot h'M after all!
Pteaae write to us again,
and well put you In
con l act with him. And
thanks to you Mr. Mart
— it's good to see thai
If'.*' readers s pa ie ,i
thought for one another 1
When it comes to
hardware Stephen
Adams is an old hand
t
Facts, Your Spectrum,
14 Rathbone Place,
London W1P WE.
Often the most annoying
hardware bugs arc the
intermittent ones which only
crop up after a couple of
month's use. You start to wish
the equipment would get il
over with and just die. Siek
Mtc rod rives frequently come
into this category.
One of the first letters 1
received un this subject came
from Don A k tinder of North
Shields His original problem
was thai he kept gelling a
prompt saying 'Microdrive Not
Present" - and he assures us »
v\ as. The only way he could
cure it was by re- formal ting the
can ridge. A new Speccy jusi
added a new problem — the
'Drive Write Protected"
prompt keeps appearing
although the tabs on the
cartridges arc intact.
Well, what's needed here is a
bit of a clean-up on the edge
connector- If you can gel your
microdrivcio accept CA'I I
hut nolhing else then it's a safe
bet that the conned ion
between the drive and the
interface is loose or dirty. Use
an ink rubber In clean off any
gunge — actually it's oxide
caused by the gold on the
interface and the lead on the
Sped rum reacting like a
battery If that doesn't eure the
problem, make sure the
mierodrive isn't throwing a
wobbly — it's only conneaed
to the Spectrum by two screws.
lite problem's not quite so
simple lor Andrew Tarry of
Zimbabwe. His Microdrive
worked fine until one day he
heard a click in mid-load- Now
the motor works bul he keeps
getting the "Microdrive not
Present ' prompt. And, yes, he's
tried cleaning hut to no avail.
I'm afraid, Andrew, thai it's
going to have ro go back to
wherever it came. And that's a
mystery because as you point
out, there are no Sinclair agents
in Zimbabwe.
We'll leave Microdrive? for
the moment, though I have no
doubt we'll return to i hem?
B Duncan s telly keeps going
green every time he plugs his
Speccy into it. Prepare to turn
green yourself "cos it's reach
for the jiffy bag time, I'm
afraid. Your Spectrum's colour
synch signal is not being sent
and il will have to go back to
Sinclair (or repaired by
experts).
C P Hewitt of Stuney,
Stratford is also having probs
with (he visuals, though his
trouble is caused by a monitor.
He has modified his Issue 2
Speccy to run a composite
video monitor but he is getting
some annoying character- wide
dark bars down the whole of
the printable area of the screen.
It's all down lo Ihc ULA which
clocks the individual
characters. You have two
choices — there are plenty of
TV repair men who could solve
ihc problem or you could
change loan KGB monitor
using an RGB converter
(Adapt Electronics" is
excellent) which would
eliminate the fault.
Connecting a Speccy to a
television camera is a much
trickier problem. But this is
what Nigel Dallard wants to do
in order to produce ihc credits
for York Student Television.
Well, it's probably easier to use
the syne signal from the
computer to control the
cameras rather than the other
way round at Nigel suggests.
That can be done but it won't
be cheap and will require a
professional sync mixer.
Nigel also wants to know
where he can gel a curcuit
diagram for the Speccy so he
knows exactly where he's
wielding his soldering iron. It*s
not (hat easy, but CPC (0772
555034) produce a repair
manual or you could take a
look al a book I've found
... _,*..! l"_- „»»..„, tl J.
Mu riiwf from Melbourne
House.
D«*e Harm is having
in mble with a Compusound
beep amplifier He writes, "I
opened up my Speccy, inserted
amp, removed beep
loudspeaker, closed Speccy.
What do you know, no sound! "
Why on earth did you remove
the beep speaker? The unit is
designed lo clip onto irf
Removing the speaket is also
ajitrravaitng the other problems
which you're having.
So, that's it for another
month ... but if your hardware
is giving you headaches, just
drop me a line at Hard Facts,
1 4 Rathbone Place, London
WlPlDff.
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You sec we're nol al\ de;ul
up North", il'l just iin net! I'm
afraid ih;ii Amh PeanelTs
'Dumps of Distinction/ has got
me. 1 miinagcd to put ;i ample
of rolls of primer paper
through the firm's accounts —
and uut jH»ps this. ( 'that'll
teach you to pay for your own
paper in future — Ed. ) The
nwctrittC eode prints a column
ahwut 20" long, then the Basic
piOMS ID allow [he printer In
cod down' Note that the
Machine Code is called
MraujM after channel open.
liKiJt niLilly. this is one of my
trite game* ( PSSST}.
I'd like (o say how much, f
like yuur Rtagaxfoe, but my
hfindwrinn^ gets shaky when I
giggle Anywiy, I'd liest put
this picture down and white
I'm at it, have 1 iioi lime to tell
you aboui the Manchester
I Aingsigh! Sinclair Usees < tub,
which meets in Long&ight
Libran. on Wednesdays?
Ah. well.
KiiLimt I umln
Mhulk-v Riinjie. Mime lies tirr
/ J Hk§ /.' iff) tow mMCh / /iJIre
tr photo, hut my
handwriting gets shaky nheti f
roil umumi the flour laughing.
Still, we Have one thing in
tommott — I tike being PSSST
as well. Ed-
Write to us — there's a bundle ot
free Spectrum software tor this month 's Star
Letter! Write to Forum, Your Spectrum, 14
Rathbone Place, London W1 P 1 DE.
TIME FOR BED
I realty enjoy your machine
code programs hut (hey W&ai
me out. 1 just don't have the
time Of the stamina to sit
down and type in the whole
program in one go. Press ( ;ins
Shift and 6 together to tweak
inio the He* loader; type
SAVE -file name" CODE
- Mart »ddrc*5>, < length of
cock > ; then, when you come
hack to your program, load
hack in the Ilex loader and
ivpt CI EAR < clear
add res v> (usually found in u
line at the beginning of the
Hex lo&dcr}, Lkt the program
and locate the l-ok .. .
NfcXT loop and change the
hrst value so Thai it
corresponds with the add)
you have gol up «o. Type
GOTO 10, and away you go
again. Don't forget ID read the
I ock again,
Martin Grata
I Mst-rlnirgh
Thanks for th t ft irm ula ,
Martin. It will work on most of
iht Hex folders that we
publish. Now J think I'll get
some shut-eye — ullihut talk
of steep has worn me out.
trouhteshootin ' Pete.
DUMPING THE
GEMINI
I have found :i Ml) of
producing i Dmq ■
I )istinclion with a Gemini-
I OX printer You can do il by
using the listing from Forum
issue h for the Shinwa < P80
and changkii the line feed to
4/144 and using dual densiiv
graphics. The lines to he
changed are:
1110 OAT* 1J7.6Z,J.2fJ5.20,1Z7,
14.0.S2
1120 DATA 27.209.20.127 .8275.
205.20.127
You'll also have in change the
checksum This will give a
e print ot 1 1 cm by IK
em A more impressive print
20 OS b) J ■' OD can be made
Willi,
1110 DATA 127,92.6.205,20.127.
14.0.S2
1 1 20 DAT A 27 . 205 20 1 27 6 2 75
205 20,127
Unfortunately, you will lose
i n.irriiv, atrftfi the iop
at [he screen with this roi;
ADDRESS
HEXCQDE MNEMONICS
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HUGE SCREEN*
10 PRINT HT 10
FfiNCY PRINTER COPY"
20 PRINT " "HfiUE PRINTER READY
LORD &CREEH!"
30 LORD ""CODE 16384
40 FOR N = © TO 39 STEP 4-
50 POKE 32769, N: POKE 32772, N
60 LPRINT LPRXNT : LPRIMT
L PRINT - L PRINT : RANDOMIZE USR
3276©
65 IF N*28 THEN GO TO 9B
70 FOR T=60 TO -20 STEP -2
©0 BEEP . 1,T: PRUSE S0: NEXT T
90 LPRINT : LPRINT LPRINT ;
LPRINT . LPRINT
100 NEXT N
110 BEEP
110
1000
1100
1200
3997
00
64
9999
1,3©: POU5E 2: GO TO
STOP
LORD
LORD
RUN
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SRUE
SRUE
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LINE 1©
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overworked 5p*ccy coot down niter each stftp-prmtinq sum.
A
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255
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255
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170
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LD
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UP
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USU "h" - 7jREAD uiPOKE A,u , . . etc.. Anyway. I'm »uro I needn't
go into thai, 'CAuse you're prata.ihly sick to drjath at hearing
about UDG o«ncratork-
G«t hotd ot an A«iemblcr. Monitor or plain old H*x loactirr and
typo In this coda. This neon* to tut organised from 8000 H*jc, id
mah.0 iur« you CLEAR the space In memory Tor It*
17
Originally'. 1 had hoped to
modify the listing given for the
Epson MX. but I found this
loo difficult, tf anyone has
been successful though, I'd be
very pleased to hear from
i hem.
v \ Ko.
Isk of WifU
So would we. This has to be
the most popular dump, since
Slough acquired a trading
estate. Ed
LOWERING THE
TONE
It any fdkn readers arc
writing programs using both
INPUT and INK FYS then the
following technique may be of
interest. After using [NPLTT
flRUM
leave the Spectrum wilh Caps
lock set and subsequent
INKHYS may return I'ppcr or
timer case Icticrv I 'he usual
answer is to laboriously check
for the upper and lower case
of each letter used.
A neater and more
convenient aUernatht is 10
include the following tine
between INPUT and
INKl'-YS. which cancels Caps
Lock if il is set. and then only
lower case need be checked
for.
10LETX-PEEKZ365B LET AX
FOH N-T TO 4 STEP -1: LET
A ft Z N"IHT|A2flj. NEXT N
If A>-8THEr4L€TX-X-8;
POKE 2365A.X
It works by setting hu 3 of
the sysuni variable 23658
typing)
To nve the new version of
MegaBasic, type SAVE "MB"
t ooi 44996,20373; 01 if
you prefer to save onto
Microdrive, type SAVE
-MM, "MET" CODE
449fU0373. When you want
to load it all back in again,
type CL.EAR 44999: LOAD"
"CODI-.. or from Microdrive
type CLE Ah LOAD
'"M";I;"MH "< QUI I Once
loaded, Megabasic will
automatically execute itself.
That should stop anyone
executing me!
Mike I eiinutn.
Ton 1 tut v, Ih^on
Cheers Mike. If you find any
more probs with YS
Mtgabasfc you can drop Mike
,1 hue ai Ytitir Spectrum. 14
ffflfftftowc Ifonr, Latutam WtP
IDE, and he'll Mtrt if out. Thai
or we'll send the boys round to
son him out. lid.
MEGABUGFIX
ll hud lo happen As soon as
you all gol hold of your copies
of YS Megabasic, you turned
up hugs which I had
unfortunately missed during
the production of the
program, All E can say is that
ncli a big program it was
inevitable that some things
would slip through,
Htmever, I have come up
with a bit of code which will
fu ihc few bugs that have
come 10 light. Top of (he flops
is the MONitor bug. birst of
all, to get this code into
McgaDastc, load up your
master copy in the normal way
and then type in the given
listing 10 the Vfega Basic
system. Save the MegaBasic
program you've just typed in.
and then RUN it. If the
Spectrum NF.Ws itself, then
all has gone well; if you get an
error report — check your
1000 let 00
1010 FOP A-47M0 TO 47367
102O READ Bi POKE A,B
103Q LET C-OB
1040 NEXT A
tOSO IF C0273II THEN PRINT •ch*£»c«uM trfor'i 8T
OP
1053 POKE 3336 1,1 93 iDOKE,33362, 47332
1060 RANDOnUE USH 47U0
1070 DATA 62, 229, 50, SO. 22Z, 62. 235, 50 ,113,206, I, 1 9
3, 1 73, 203, 183, 30.33,36, 21 S\ 34, If6, 173,33,50,104,9
4,33,06,33,123
10BO DATA 170,202. 1B3, 17,1,3,0, 237,176,24,240, 193
,6 ,184, 37, 21 9,1 95, 67, 184, I 23, 2 I 9, 193,90,104,70,21
0, 193,227 , 104,0,0,38,20, 233, I fc7,202
1090 DATA 20,3,33,04,104,229,237, 113,61 ,92,207,49
, 33 ,0 , 220 , 193 , 40 , 2 1 9, 33, 200 , 1 74 , 34 , 54 , 92 , 203 , 1 1 0,
13.173,211 ,234, 62, 6, 30, 72, 92, 3C, 143
1100 DATA 92, 30, I 4i, 92. 2Q5, I 73, 13,62,2.203,1,22,1
7,173,164, 173,203,10,4 2,38,6, 92, 234,46,40,3, 1 93,1
73, 207,6,69.33, I 12.23, 12b ,35, 30 ,143
1110 CATA 92,229,197,173,17,164,104,203,10,12,193
,223,16,238,193.173,207.120,4,32,76,65,02,65,32,1
32,129,22,0,0,4,09,03,32,77,69,71,63
1120 DATA 66,65, B3, 73,67, 13, 13,3, B6, 101 114,113,1
OS, It 1,1 10,32,49,46, 49, 13, 1 3, 2, 127,32,7*, 105,107,
101,32,76,101,97,109,97,110,32,49,37
1130 DATA 36,33,13,141 ,234, 233,40,7,190,194 ,83,21
0,193,01 ,2lO,3B
1140 OATA 32.233,167,202, 179, IBt ,193,173,201
1130 OATA 237,91,218,231,19,19,19,19,19,19.19,19,
19,195,117,208
TMt program kill* all hrrtwn Meg*b*»l£ bug* dead!
(FLAGS2) to 0. This acts as a
toggle fof Caps Lock. If you
wish to modify ibe line to set
Ops I odt Instead, ihis
requires only two slight
changes
1 Sonander
ll.itf-p/.ii,
Well done Mr Sowtukr, but
what about turning Caps Lock
on with POKE 2J65S.S and
then /usr checking for capital
inputs? Troubleshooiin ' Pete.
MAC HACK
Thank you for prinimj; the
excellent Mac mas in the
March issue, Tho only thing it
needed to roiLi n
k optiwii the
time, T tried my hand ai
hacking tnul e;imc up with the
following, <«uhuut the use ol
,iv oiblitf, 1 might add! J
• inn ^sirh ti . Ktmpston
inter:.. ^k I
POKE 2956.0; POKE 2852 3t
POKE 2926*93: POKE
29261.194:
POKE 2*263,0: POKE 29267.31:
POKE 29269.A7: POKE
29270 194
POKE 29274.0: POKE 29276.31:
POKE 29278 79 POKE
29279 194:
POKE 29283.0: POKE 29285.31:
POKE 292BB 194
I admit this is not the most
elegant way to use the
Kempsion port but it is
I
consistent with the keyboard
version and so docs not affect
timing. ALso. it doesn't change
the reference 10 the now
disabled keyboard control in
the instructions.
[> W Arthur
Midlothian
Turning the tables on us, eh?
Iht- hadttn hacked. Ed
MEGABOARD
I am half interested in buying
YS Megabanic. and half
interested in buying a
Spectrum+ keyboard.
K it possible lor you to
bundle the two together, with
new keys OL- style — ».c.
without multiple printing lo
confuse the keys? I'd buy one.
Pelct Walsh
Km I) da 1 1
What do you mean, you're half
interested in buying
Megabasic? How can anyone
still be dithering ? This ir the
program of the year, and next
year for that mutter. However,
we don 't ha vr any plans to
bundle software and hardware
yet (give us time!), If you
really want a keyboard
without the confusing legends,
then you should take a look at
the Saga 2+ or Saga .1
keyboards, both of which
come with the option of having
only the standard
alphanumeric keys. Ed.
9»
TH E YOUR SPECTRUM
TRAINSPOTTER AWARD
We all make mistake* ( Yes.
mcredihfe ox ii may seem,
even me - Ed.). Now all
tin 0e ot you who tukc great
delight in pointing out nil
our minor misdemeanours
will have the chance to
achieve our highest accolade
— The YS Tmbapoutn
Award I hese certificates
won't be given out lightly —
you're going lo have to
reach previously unplumbco
heights of pedantry in the
reading of V'Vlo get one.
Signed wiih the ceremonial
him K (heEdhimsdf, this
is not a chance to be missed.
So, get trainspoiting tbote
unmake* — there ain't that
many of *cmf ( Tee hee. —
7:f\),
Our first award winner
has iNimsriotied himself in
stardom by pointing out our
faux -pas in the GhostbuMers
article in issue 12,
forced m* J w " ,r • l
ht,T rnenNt,n *«
PkmaVir y c "°"JWn "I you?
™»e prornrae la nc^. Q V
• Jll's^iiL'Inn
Welt Terry \ I can call yoti
Terry, can 't I? you ha w
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(Hir coveted Trainspotlers "
A ward I do so hale a clever
ditk Any more takers nm
there? Ed.
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How to Order YS
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Just complete the ordei t'lrn below
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KEY FEATURES OF YS
MEGABASIC
• An extended command set. )S
MegaBasic recognises ovrr f$ nr*
commands, which allow you to access
the new features available as well as
providing the opportunity to make
more aflhe commands in standard
ZXBosk,
• fi4 column* of text. Useful
wordprocessing and database
applications.
• Three character sizes. I 'stag YS
Mega Haste, you 've now the < twice of
accessing double- heigh 1. 1 tan dard and
half- width characters.
• Three character for.; ■, 1 \
MegaBasic offers three font s :
which allow your Spectrum to mimic
other nnti hines on the market.
I Wi You can manage up ;<
QL'Style windows on-screen at any
onetime.
• Sprites, Using the free Sprite
Designer package that accompanies
eachcopyofYS MegaBasic, vou'tlbe
able to design and murttpulutr ttp to
ten sprites on-screen at oncel
• Cnkanced sound. Mike Eeaman's
taken the Spectrum s BEEP
command and given it th e full
Mega-treatni
• Procedures. Structure your
programs and define new command*
— it 'sail here f
• Stippled ch l iJL-\tyfe
stipples allow you to muc colours
on -screen to give interesting t xdour
effects
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covering 256 screens of the most amazing high
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PATCHING-UPTHEM^
Faulty files are now a thing of the past! Using this second
instalment ot code, Andrew Pennell shows you how to recover
unloadable files from that Microdrive cartridge that's giving you
hassle. Take it away, Andrew ...
In issue & of our most illustrious
magazine, t got about half-way through
tie vising a Microdrive repair kit that
could .smc LI out faulty tiles m an article
called Running Repairs. Nnv>, to finish it
off, T have evolved a way of allowing the
recovery of un loadable files from car-
tridge,
SORRY!
Rut first, an apology, Pari one of this arti-
cle. Running Repairs,, was nut quite the
pristine job it might have been, and draw
with sharp eyes will have spoiled the tidd
buglet or two; the pity is. I can't even lay
the blame on our poor ©I* Ed (Poor yes.
but less of the 'old'. Ed.). The problem is
thai we get a sector list that's minus some
of the necessary data ... indeed, there are
quite a few sectors mining. As it stands,
this produces incorrect results in the
'check file* section.
Thti lit tow !■ used (o alter th* cod* given
in Running Repair* to accommodtt* Hi*
code provided In Itusartick.' — it alio
correct* Oh night problem in the previous,
listing! / _^ ^__^— _-
100 CLEAfl 29999
tit LDAC *"*", 1: ™SL. CODE "CODE
120 FDR 1-3B000 TO 30463
a uET #-P£Eir 1 1 IF »-117 OR *
-116 THEN LET a-e+11
140 IF it^-SBt*! AND t<:"3Pl34f
OR li >-30223 AND 1 '-SMUt THEN
LET #-0
I9e POKE *.~28t6,e
160 NEXT I
1TB DATA 2,128,25,0.26,130,133,
235,140,129
tea DATA 222, Ml, 22*. 53. 229, 72
190 RE0YORE i FOR 1*1 TO B
20* p«rd ».t)i poke 32aife-*,d
210 NEXT 1
720 SAVE •"«h"i 1 1 ■«_<:, 3"C0t>e ^2B
16, 404
»2
Once you' we saved the cede from th* llret
1 1 » tins ft* ' S L C , 2' , nwv e R A M top up to . >ay ,
32768, to make room for the listing Above,
w hJc h r«ad* in ' $ L C , 2" , add ■ lh* extra
code to It and trw»n save* It Out a* 'SLC.3V
IN
110
128
: M
SBe
S10
3M
"2
* err
16, 1
1
4
leie
I B2t
1030
LB4t
\wm
l«M
1070
1000
1
CLEAR 120 IS
LOAD • '«<"( l|-6LC.2"C0D€
RESTORE
LET »-B
FflP 1-73260 TO 33706
READ *i POKE l,*i LET •-»+•
NEXT 1
IF »<>3769* THEN PRINT -0**
W *l STOP
SAVE e-«,"il|-SL0.3C0DE 32»
DATA 243,205,144,131,2*1,25
Anyway, I've modified the code to
improve I he performance and, although
it's still not perfect — some sectors that
do exist may not be found on very full
cartridges, and some will he marked as
*bad' when they're not — this is not so
much of a problem now because one of
the functions of (he extra code given in
this issue, is for ii to act as an individual
sector read, and this achieves perfect
resuhs
Another problem in Running Repairs
was the code's position in memory —
RAMtop at 3fMKMI proved too low for
the eMra Basic. Thus. I've provided a
reiocalor program that'll shift the code
for you — that'll teach me to hand in part
one of an article before working out pan
two!
GETTING UNDERWAY!
So, before you enter this issue's section of
1100 DATA 201,92.203,30,6,205
1110 DATA 103,5, I 97, 73,1 ,»
L120 DATA 34,210,92,42,251,131
1130 DATA 34,214,92,205,232,15
1140 DATA 221,1 26,2s, MS, 24? .23
1150 DATA 42,701 , 12,221, 117,13
1 1*9 DATA 33, 233, 8, 34, 2B1, 92
1170 DATA 2B5, 196, 16,221 , 126,41
1100 DATA 221,190,13,40,12,53
1190 DATA 2B1 ,12,53,32,239,223
1200 DATA 54,253,193,107,131,221
1210 DATA 229, 22S, 17,67,0,25
1220 DATA 205,169,24,1,14,0
1230 DATA 705.204,129,221,119,11
1240 DATA 17,15,0,25,1,0
1250 DATA 2,203,204,129,221,119
1260 DATA 12,221,54,0,0,271
1270 DATA 229,225,209, I, 03 t 2
1200 DATA T37, 176. 193,107, 131,21
5
1290 DATA 32.0,254,175,194,240
1300 DATA 1,213,32,0,203,30
1310 DATA 6,203,103,3,237,67
21 DATA 253,129,33,0,131,34
1330 DATA 220,92,1, 10,0, :4
1340 DATA 21 9, 92, 42, 231, 1 3t, 34
1330 DATA 21 4, 92, 203, 4 1,27, 221
1360 DATA 110,26,221,102,27,6
1370 DATA 32,126,234,253,32,3
1300 DATA 35,16,240,231,13,221
1390 DATA 229,225,1,67,0,9
14O0 DATA 233,42,233,129,9,1
1410 DATA 16,2,2^7,176,203,61
1420 DATA 16,193,107,131,0,1
1430 DATA 2,3,4,3,6,7
1440 DATA 0,9,215,32,0,203
1450 DATA 30,6,203,163,3,237
1460 DATA 67,253,129,33,0,131
1470 DATA 34,220,92,1,10,0
14B0 DATA 34,218,92,42,231,131
1490 DATA 34,214,92,203.232,1^
1500 DATA 221,176,23,203,247,27
1310 DATA 219.239,230,1,3:
1920 DATA 231,14,33,255,0,34
1330 DATA 201 ,92,205, 196, IB, SB
1540 DATA 253,129,221,190,41,32
1350 DATA 42,62,230,211,239,203
1560 DATA 125. 131 ,1 ,104, 1 ,243
1370 DATA li,lM,177 ( 32,231,24l
1500 DATA 0, 221, 229, 22S, 17,53
1590 DATA 0,25 .205, 120, 24, 6Z
1600 DATA 230,211,239 .2? i,203, 24
1610 DATA 134,205,169,10,195,193
code, you'll need to use the fisting given
to slightly alter I he data you've already
got in order to accommodate thai given
here. The relocator program achieves its
object and corrects ihe problems
described above; it then goes on to save
the new code under the name 'SLt
Once you've entered this little go
move RAMtop up to, say. 3276H n>
allow room for the new bytes shewn in
the second listing. (A word of earning —
there's insufficient memory to allow both
of those programs to be present simul-
taneously?)
The second program given here reads
in 'SLC\2\ adds thr extra csn.Il- in il and
then saves it out M M < '.3\ In fact, il
while entering this listing myself thai 1
discovered the low memory bug thai still
remains in the third version of the IfiU-r-
face 1 ROM, 1 tried a CAT command as
soon as I realised that memory was run-
ning out and the system crashed in ihc
most spcctaeulai i *i fashion*. But, as long
as you don'i get RAMtop below the
value in line I "HI, you shouldn't have any
problem on any of the Interface ROMs
When you've sorted the machine code
to rights, do a RANPOM1/I L SK
32H 16 to allow the extra commands to be
accepted by the syntax checker Now
enter the third listing given, saving it so
thai il starts at line 9000. !i\nn extended
verttoa of the first psrfi Basic
DATA 5,33,201,92,53,32
DATA 197, 34, 33B. 221, 229, 6
DATA 10,221,54,71,0,221
DATA 35,16,240,221,225,:
DATA 203.70.204, 201,33, (63
DATA 131,38,218.72.6,11
DATA 25*, 233 ,202, 100,1 28. 7-7
DATA 207.131,109,100,120,21
DATA 130,41.27,02,130,232
DATA 13,42,131,232,15,231
DATA 130,61,10, 1(91 , 131 ,120
DATA 24,00,130,247,23,40
DATA 131,247,73,103,130,196
DATA 10,65.131,196,10,133
DATA 130, lb9, 24, 112, 131, 169
DATA 10,213,130,3,27,02
DATA 130,163,16.43,131,163
DATA 16,231,130,34,19,101
DATA 131,179,21,88,130,30
DATA 21,40,131,50,21,103
DATA 130,169,19,63,131,169
DATA 1*, 133, 130, 233,21 ,112
DATA 131,142,19,1,0
1620
1630
1640
1650
1660
1670
1600
16^0
3
1700
1710
172B
1730
1740
1750
1760
1^70
1 7M
1790
ISM
1010
I82B
1B30
• B40
T3
Thl* Hating ahould be ■avedMtUne 0000.
It'een ■xlendtdrfrtlon of the Oa«ke given
in Running Repair*,
100
1 10
INPUT "Drive number m
IF d<t OR rj>8 THIN GO TO
DIM n«(t3l
120 DIM i*<250, 131 •
131 »D 9i *L d
133 PRINT "Wett * we..,"
139 R€H find leet 1 ten
140 FOR 1-1 TO I
150 IF *IU,12>- CHftt 235
NEXT 1
160 LET n-l-1
l«9 REM ovt repetition*
170 FOB 1*2 TO n
100 IF «t(L, TO 12>Oz«41
12^ THEN QO TO 190
1B2 IF CODE lS4i,i31 127 THEN
FT i«<1 ' *nli SO TO 190
104 LET **<!-! I -n«
190 NEXT i
200 LET c-2
1000 CLB l PRINT INVERSE 1|
MICRODRIVE REPAIR KIT
IWB3 PRINT
,- 0. Output to ■ t | u pr
22
Intar' and
e-2 t
"acrHn" AND c"3
1010 PRINT
■'1.
Full c*t*le>gu»"
1020 PRINT
S#ctor list"
IBM PRINT
Bad **etor lift?*"
1040 PRINT
"4.
Checfr Mlf
tase PRINT
-3*
E«#mlna Wctor"
1068 PRINT
■"6,
Rtfinr Mctur*
1070 PRINT
■"7.
Rwiova sajctor"
reeo print
""B.
Chiange drivf na ■
1090 PRINT
10*3 INPUT | • PRINT mOi -ChDGMP »
Option"!
11H PAUSE Oi LET *#-lNKtYtf IMP
UT ,
I11B IF ■#<-•- OR •#>*B" THEN (30
TO 10*3
1120 IF i*-"^ THEN LET C«8-C1 G
TO 1MB
U23 IF ^^w-a- T*N INPUT "Urirt
na.*-|di*0 dt GO to iwa
U30 go sue iwe*ia»aei«vflL **
U40 IF C-2 THEN PRINT "Prmm*. an
y k*v *or *amu" i PAUSE B
1*30 so TO 1000
IWJ REM Full catalogs*
2000 PRINT act "Full eatai oqu*"
2010 DIM fStl0>i LET f*-E*<11
2820 FOR 1-1 TO f*
203C IF laui-n* DSMii, TO 10)
-** THEN GO TO 2040
2040 PRINT *C\**\ TO 10}
2030 LET *l-i*M , TO iBi
2060 NE«T t
2069 PRINT Ictrtln, TO 10)
2070 RETURN
29V9 REM Co«pl»ta> ■*CtOr lilt
3000 Dirt fit 10} i INPUT "Fllanama
(or ENTER for allM", *«
3010 FOR 1-1 TO n
3913 IF ;iUl-n* THEM DO TO 3030
3020 IF *0»nO1 TO 10} THEN GO SU
B 93001 GO TO 303B
3«23 IF xmtt, TO 10)-** TWN SO
SUB 9500
3030 NEXT 1
3040 RE TURN
3949 RfH Barf inter Hmt
4000 PRINT *cr"B#tf **Ct<?r U*t'
4010 FOB %-t TO n
4020 IF ll(iX>Al AND 2* (1,11 >
L27 THEN BO 5*?P ^500
4030 NEKT i
4040 RETURN
" rtEM Cnacfc Mia
5002 DIH *«(10il IN-PUT "FilanaM
7 »»#•
5003 Dl?1 K*t2361l LET •af«-1l LE
T q.OOd K l
3010 FOP 1*1 TO n
3020 IF £*<i, TO 10)1 Of 8 THEN 00
TD S 100
3030 IF ;#C1,13I>CHR* 127 THEN
□ TO 5060
3034 REN good HCtor
3040 LET M-IGO0E If li , 1 1 ' *it-"y"
5030 JD TO 3000
3039 R£H hart itctaf
5060 PRINT He, -Record ' [CODE j«<
l,Ili;" bad on »ctor "iCODE i»<
2)
3070 LET good-0
30B0 LET o-CQDE z*< 1.131
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•o * -CODE I * 1 1 , L 1 )
31 BB NEXT t
3110 IP *O#'>-0 THEN 90 TO 3120
Sill REN i»i»«ir,q EOF
5t 12 FOR 1-230 TO I STEP -1
Stl* t" MBtll*" " THEN NEXT i
• LET •af-i-1
3110 LET good-Oi PRINT «c» "No ED
■card"
3120 FOR 1-0 TO *t>*
3130 tF X**!*!!- 1 " " THEN PRINT ■
Record ";1(" ■»i**t™9'* LET good-
3i40 mvt i
3130 tF Qoad-l THEN PRINT "Ftl#
"j**! 1 " intact"
3!A« IF cjorid-B THEN PRINT 'Fila
"i**t" corrupted'*
5170 RETURN
39<W REN R*ad 4 MCtor
6000 INPUT -Swctor na.'u
6010-F » CODE 60090
6020 IF c-2 THEN CLS
THE COMMAND TABLE
COHMMn
ACTION
P L <Mm>
Gets I he sec lor Jrst into z$
'0 'drive
Sets the drive number for alt the other commands.
*F ■(•ctor- CODE 'location'
Loads the given sector into a given location
IX corresponds to trie lirsl location, so it requires 595
bytes
"S CODE -location'
Saves the- sector read inio the location on the next tret
sector on the cartridge.
'E'wctof
' Removes trie numbered sector from the cartridge
▼ Thli in thai main aasambla t listing and should bm anta raid ultiif an a* aamblar program , If
you' u* wot g«t ana ■ ■♦mblar to hand, you can in* a Ho n loador to lyp* in tha ttguraa. on
lh«j l«tthand *M*ol th« listing.
00 ■.'
B033
00 u
BB39
B03«
B0JC
9031
SB41
0043
8044
a04b
0048
9*40
0004
B0B7
BOA
OOBt
B0C4
a BCD
213RQ0
22ST3C
B 10000
C9
C6CE
FE2A
C2FB01
DT
ZOOM
F&20
FE6C
C 20082
D7
2000
CDF717
2IFFO0
22C93C
CDR3B1
OONMOOO
00MWHMI
?B40
SBtO
B10D 21C9SC
01 10 j5
Bill 00000000
31 15 20A3
0390
0200
8200
B200
B2Z1
G3B*
0205
8207
B20S
e?Bp
S20D
0301
R212
0214
0217
F3
C09B87
Fl
FE64
281 1
FEao
2B1F
FE73
CA4002
FE65
CA0A87
C3F00)
02 1 ft
0210 CB1E0*
B220 COB 703
i33T3 MMBE
B22i 22FB03
822» C3C103
100
110
120
130
140
! 00
210
1^0
230
240
243
247
340
249
aso
OK
1096
031 '
I860
: ,i NJ
10«B
1100
11 10
1200
130]
1373
1376
1378
i aoo
1590
1400
1 430
499^
SO0O
3010
9030
! ."2
5031
0033
3033
3033
3036
58*0
5042
5043
3047
!«A0
3070
30B0
■ .«. -
3100
31 10
5120
3130
5140
5) 38
5160
3170
^IBP
5190
•BH^B |**niH D'Q**
HLfHENVCC
(VECTOR), HL | *lt#*- vactor
»C,0
A, 206
N7.,*«lFa
•10
420 intnt char
*2B \ mah* It I.e.
1-
Ni,NVEC2 | ••nasi >ump-»
410
• 28 inmt C
LD
LO
RET
NEWWEC ADD
C#>
JP
R^r
OEFH
OR
CP
JP
HBT
DEFW
r
i
L2 CALL MOTOR iSHitch on
LB Ht. , 233 i»"rta*i rtunb»«-«t
LD (SECTOR) ,HL
FLOOP CALL NKHDBF imxt h**daf fc buMtr
r.EFp B.B. 0.8, 0.0,0 i>*t»I#n|( old CCXjaiH
DEFEi 0,0,0.8,0,0,0
LEBQ JR 1,NEXT |il not ...*#fl
C,I68AD il+ 1st chKHui. fall a
I
I
I frath*r ait
NEKT LB
DEC
DEFB
JR
«L*
I
i
1
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OLD P1AC
R9T ai0
DEFM -0
ENDn
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ML, SECT OR
(HL)
0,8,0,0
«7. FLOOP
REPAJH KIT PART 2
STftPTB MERE
i ¥urthmf a
NWEC2 PUSH
CALL
•OP
CP
JR
CP
JR
€P
JP
CP
JP
JP
f
SETDRV OLD
CALL
CALL
LD
LD
JP
AF
UATRM2 i altar codt
AF
ZtOETDRV
•#*
Z.FINDSC
- a"
Z.BAVBEC
'•'
7,ERASEC
"01 F0 i | f noo*
•20
EMALBC
CHKEND
^L, (D^BTRJJ
403C1 ;onfl of an
5218 |
Th* fin t a x ti-a comma nd h andlar is 3ET0R V, w hie h handle s in* ' O command simply by
finding tha valua and putting it in DRIVE .
fl??C
5220 FIMDSC OLD *28
B23F
CO1F06
5S3B
8252
FEfiF
"5740
9734
C77B00
3230
823?
3360
023A
E043C93C
3270
B23E
CO1E06
52B0
9741
COB703
""9V
8244
OS
530O
CALL
CP
JP
OLD
LD
EVALBC 18#t HCtw no
173 ["coor"
NX ,030
,BC iMCttir- no
• 20
(BSCTOR
CALL EVALBC
CALL CHKEMD
PUSH BC |MV8 oast 1 nation
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Tefex: 95151
6090 PRINT «c{ "Sector "|«
£100 IF PEEh 60080 THEN PAINT *C
t PLASH ij'Not ♦ourncCi RETURN
41 IB PRINT tcj-C^rt nan*i"|
6120 FOR 1*44 TO S3
6130 PRINT *eiCHR# PEEK 16B0B0*i
>I
A 1*0 NEXT 1 I PRINT a c
*t5€j PRINT eci "RCCFuai ,J |PEEK: 680
67
6160 PRINT •ci"RECNU«i"»PEEK 600
60
6170 PRINT *C| H RECttNt"iPEEK 600
6'»*236#PEEK 60070
6100 PRINT #C| -Fllmwn"!
6190 FDR 1-71 TO M
6300 PRINT *C|CHR« PEE* * 60000*A
>l
4510 NEXT it PRINT ttc
6228 PRINT nci"CriKl<agnli 'rPEEi-
6230 IF PEEK 60011 -PEEK 60B81 TH
EN PRINT «c| "OK"
6240 IF PEE" 60011OPCEK 6B0B| 1
HEN PRINT •t|-f*r l ouId be H iPEEK
6Htl|*)"
6245 PRINT Hci"Ch#ek«iuti2|[ "(PEEK
62S0 IF PEEK 60012-PEEK 603*4 TH
EN PRINT BCI-OK-
6262 IF PEEK 600 12-: 'PEEK 60594 T
HEN PRINT »c; " <*naiild be "iPEEK
&HB12s "1 "
6300 RETURN
4994 REX r«v«tr sector
7000 GO SUB 6O00
7010 IF PEEK 60000 THEN RETURN
7820 PRINT '"Re-nrtting to epare
sector "
7030 *S CODE 60000
7040 PRINT
7B3B RETURN
7 00 fl REM rnovi ttctW
0000 INPUT "S*ctor no. "|*
0810 -E •
0020 PRINT *B«tor nnovm''
0030 RETURN
9000 CLEAR 320131 LOAD •■«'M|"B
LC.J'-CDDE t RANDOM UE U3R 3201 6t
RUN
9300 PRINT in:Hi, TO 101 t " r"|
CODE z«M,ll>,TAB 16i"s"iCOD€ I*
'2), TAB 21,
9310 LET t-CODE z«(l , 131
9520 IF f/ZOlNT ff/JJ THEN PRJN
T 4ei ■EOF 11 1
9530 IF CODE I* ti , 13> >12? THEN P
PINT •*:, TAB 23 1" BAD" i
9348 PRINT tc
9338 RETURN
99*9 CLEAR ■ ERA0C 'd*! I I "rsppir
2-1 SAVE #-*-| l t "repair 2*
INTO ACTION
The menu has been extended to cover the
extra operation. 1 !; prohabb ihe most use-
ful of these is 'Examine sector*, which
searches a cartridge for a given sector,
and loads it (corrupted or not) into RAM
for inspection. Lines 6000 onwards load
the sector into locations 60000 cm,
revealing various details about it. Most
important here are the checksums; if
cither of these are incorrect it means that
the file of which ii is a pan will probably
not toad, and the sector should be
repaired — wh ich is exactly what option 6
does. You can usually tell if tape is phys-
ically damaged, because [he checksum
rcsuh will give a different value every
time you read it.
A sector is repaired by if being read to
address 60000 onwurds; Hums ihen writ-
ten out on to the next available sector,
with the checksums re-calculated. It's
not. of course, written back on to the
same sector as there's every chance that
the actual tape is damaged at this point.
Once a sector has been fixed in this
way, the 'bad' version should be
0349
2se:«
B310
S24B
22DA3C
5320
0240
2AFF-
8330
B24E
22D65C
5340
ML, I
LD
LD <N_STRW ,Ht m
LD HL, (DRIVE)
LD <D STfil) ,HL
ana 1 an
The next routine isFINDSC, which hand!** Um ~F command- After tyntaa checking, an
'M' channel is created, and oa>ch sector a naminod until the required one is found — or
un til the **ctor counter empires. If the tec tor is To urvd , then It* particular* air* • tored in
the **id location; If not* then 255 la placed Inlo the location instead. An exit is mad* via
OUITM, which clo**a the channel before returning to the interpreter.
0281
CDEBBF
9380
H2
CALL
CREATH
6254
DD7E 1 9
5360
LD
A, UK+23> "
B23?
CflF7l7
5370
"A
CALL
MOTOR iturn on
B23A
2ACR5C
9 WB
LD
HL, (SECTOR)
82 3D
DD750B
S3*0
LP
tt>+l3),L imvs sector no
B26B
2 IFF 00
9400
LD
HL t 255
0263
22C95C
5410
LD
(SECTOR), ML I count
8266
CDC4 « Z
5420
DOAQIN
CALL
IVEJ '
9269
DD7E29
5430
LD
ftjIUMH i sector leaded
S26C
DOBE0D
3440
CP
(IX+I3) | 1* it wanted''
026F
280C
9450
JR
I »E0T IT fi4 Its th* on*
827 I
21C95C
3460
LD
HL, SECTOR
0274
35
5470
DEC
<HL)
8275
20EF
5480
JR
NZ,DOAQIr4 ids 255 1 1 MB*
8277
El
04 ?1
PUr*
(destination
8270
36FF
5500
LD
IHL>,255 | 'not found'
027*
E76BB"!
5505
JP
OUITM
8270
DDES
5530
GDT I T
POSH
in
B27<f
EI
SS40
RDR
HL
orae
I 143B0
=35B
UD
DF.-43
B2B3
IT
9960
ADD
HL.DE jHL-RECFLB
0284
CDfl*? i 8
357B
WIO
CALL
RDBVTfl
8287
010E80
5580
LD
BC,M
B26A
CDCCB1
5900
CALL
CHKEUH
8280
DD770B
5600
LD
*m ,a
B2«rB
1 JBF00
B603
LD
DE,*0F
B293
19
9603
ADD
HL,DI
Q2"r4
010003
9604
LD
8C,*200
8297
CPCC81
3603
CALL
um
829A
DD770C
5604
LD
,A
0390
DD36000B
361B
LD
iIX+B) ,8 | found
B2t\l
DD69
5628
RUSH
IV
B2A3
82A4
El
5i n
POP
HL
01
S640
PDR
CiE i destination Ms
8 2 A3
015302
3658
LD
BC.595 MTf^tfTn
B2A8
EPBB
566B
LDIR
t-cooy Mhoja buffer
82AA
C36BB3
3663
i
JR
OUITM
3710
1 Mv«
data
next *rmm sector
82AD
5720
6AVSEC
OLD
420
82BB
FEAF
9T31
CP
175 |"C0DE H
$2*2
C2F001
5740
JP
NZ,*0>FB
B2W
OLD
•20
djpe
CDlEQfe
5760
CALL
EVALBC '
B2BB
CDB705
3770
CALL
CHKEND
626E
ED43FD01
5788
to
FMAR^'i.RC :Uori source
21B083
3790
LD
HL,BILLN^
B2C3
22DC5C
; bm
LD
CT STR1I t HL
B2CB
010A00
si i ■
LD
i 10
62CB
22DA3ii:
3820
LD
fU STR1 1 ,H.
B2tt
TAPS-
3030
LD
HL,fDrfl^F
B2D1
22D65C
9941
LP
(D STRI) t HL
,
02D4
CD2R1B
3838
Ml
CALL
82D7
DD6C1A
3B6Q
LD
82DA
0D6A1B
3878
LD
B3O0
Be 20
3BB0
LD
BOOP
7E
5S90
■FULL?
LD
82E0
FEFF
3900
CP
U2E2
20«e
3910
JR
t);T4
23
3028
INC
82E3
IBF8
5930
0JN2
B3E7
E7
594B
RET
B^EB
BF
3950
DEFP
B2E4
0069
5960
[00PAC
PUSH
B2EB
El
3970
for-
02EC
014300
0900
LD
e::rr
89
9**fl
ADC
BOR0
EB
6000
EI
82F1
2APQ0!
6810
LD
e:F4
00
6030
HDD
RZFTi
011002
6030
LD
B2FB
ED&a
6040
LDIR
B2FA
cosaia
60 50
m
CALL
S2FD
-es
6070
JP
8300
000 1 0203
6100
SILLNM
1
DEFB
6110
4 rmovf An
• 830A
6120
ERASEC
OLD
830D
CDIE06
6130
C*y
8310
CDB78-3
6140
EWJ
8?13
EO43FD01
6150
LD
|if at l*aat 1 fra*
•
Routine S A VSEC handle* the "5 command and, *gain, it start* by opening an 'W channel
with a silly nienani^ that should never *Kist«n the cartridge- A full c*rthdg*i*taat*d
prior loth* data being written on to lh« neMt tree carlridgf, with Ihe ROM routine WRBUF
handling most of the trtchy ttuff ... excluding doing th* ch*ck*inm*.
V8NR
L,*JK*261
H + <I3!+27>
0»32
A, iHL> '
•FF
N7 t IS8PAC
ML
FULL"?
*20
*BF l "M|r.r ndr i ve
HL
ec,6?
ML, PC
DE.HC tDE-RECFLS,
HL, (PMARkl
ML , PC | sour c •* 67
BC ,595-67
icopy mta buffer
WRBUF [*»nd It
PUITM
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Individual
• 20
EvALBC
CHHEMD
(FMARK1 ,BC
tCfJu-tH
illy flit
25
'removed' from the cartridge; there's not
much point in freeing the faulty sector for
further use. Option 7 achieves this by
marking it with a >trange filename full of
CHRS Os, That done, the next time you
ask for a sector list of the cartridge you'll
get a had sector with the name
■??????????"; this is normal, so don't try
to delete it again. The strange name will
not show up in a norma) CAT. As much
of [he utility is in Basic, you can re-
configure it to suit, using the extra com-
mands prnvided: check out the table of
commands given with this article
CODE CONSIDERATIONS
For those blessed with an assembler, it's
obviously a bit easier to enter the assem-
bly listing, rather than the accompanying
Hex, The listing, in facr, is a hit strange
for two reasons. First, it's fragmented,
consisting initially of the modifications
made to the code in Running Repairs. As
the original line numbers were chopped
from my listing (hat — at last something I
c an blame on someone else) the position
of each modification may not be clear. To
help. I've included at least one label in
each block. The only one that's a bit
vague is the mam extra section ... it
should go directly after TEMPA in the
code in Running Repairs. The **L+'
commands in the listing are assembler
directives, and should be ignored.
I he second odd thing about the listing
is that it uses a "macro". I've used one
called OLD to make it clearer when tail-
ing 16K ROM routines with the SK
ROM in place. The usual way to call a
routine is with two instructions — namely
a RS T# 10 followed by a OEFW - and
this is not exactly crystal clear; with the
macro defined, a much clearer tommmid
(such as OLD#20> can be used. Cur-
rently, the only assembler that allows
macros is the one from Hisoft — if you
use another, simply replace it wiih the
more king-winded version, (I cannot
claim any originality for this idea. The
shadow ROMs were written by Sinclair
Research using a similar macro, named
Ol.DCAL, but the Hisoft assembler
doesn't allow long macro names.)
And now for the code itself. To begin
with, there's a mod allowing the addi-
tional routines to be accessed — by
alteration of the JP instruction. The other
mods are to do with getting around the
'missing sector" problem, and the DEFB
0s are there to pad out the code so that it
ends up pretty much like the code you
saw in Running Repairs.
If you have a look at the code, you'll
see the macro definition, and that's fol-
lowed by the new syntax checker. Check
out the listing itself for further documen-
tation.
Anyway, that's about it. With this little
lot, you should be able to reclaim at least
some of your yn loadable files. The exist-
ing program does not alter corrupt data
from sectors — only the checksums —
and you could add a nice little editor
around line 6020 to do just that. Sorry for
the long wait between the two parts of
this article ... let's hope E don't have to
wait so long for you to come up with an
editor at line 6020! El*
B317 2100B3
ilAB
hl ,SILLW
831 A 22DC3C
M7B
LO
(T BTRll ,HL
S3 ID B10A80
6160
to
BC, IB
852B 22DA3C
6] 98
LD
tW BTR11 ,HL
9323 2AFB83
6200
LO
HL, (DRIVE)
B326 22D6SC
62 1Q
LD
(D^BTRi* ,HL
The code at ERA SEC handle* the ' E command, by *• lire h«ng lor the r equi red sec to r In *
similar way lo FIN DSC. When It'tvf OLMld, a null Jilename 1b written Out to It, along with a bit
that sho wi the sector It being 'used'; thus, if* removed from use.
B329
CDEB0F
6220
M3
CALL CREflTH
832C
DD7E 1 9
A?7B
ID A,flX*73>
B3?F
CPF717
624a
M7
CALL MOTOR jiHitch on
853?
DBEF
6230
IN A. (KEF)
P334
E601
6260
AND 1
BS3c
280?
62 78
JR WZ,NPROT
B37B
E 7
6200
RST #28
0339
BE
6298
DEFB aE i "Write protected"
B33A
31FFHR
630«
NFRDT
ld Hi,?sr;
9330
22C95C
6310
LD (SECTOR > ,HL
9340
CDC412
6328
ERALP
CALL NEXTHD mmt HttCK-
9343
3AFDB1
6330
LD A, (F MARK J
BtAb
DDBE29
4340
CP' el!t>4is
0349
202A
6330
JR NZ, NOT WON
63 60
1 this
la the itclor
93 4B
3EE6
6370
LD A, Bet
B34D
D3EF
6308
OUT (#EF) ,ft |*1 ana) writa' to VLtk
93 4F
CD7DB3
639B
CALL CLRFJUF
0132
014001
6488
LD 80,90)168
9353
FS
64 IB
F-UBh af
8336
OB
6428
WAITBC
DEC BC
933?
7B
6430
LD A,B
B3SB
•I
6448
OR C
933"?
20FB
6430
JR N?,WfllTf,c
1391
Ft
6460
POP AF
0350
M
6*70
no* f»*t«r a d*l*y
B3BP
DDES
6484
PUBH IK
h ja f
EI
6499
POP HL
9360
1 13700
40M
LD 0E,»37
S363
19
6318
ADD HL.DE iprBimble
■364
CD7B18
tOM
MS
CALL WRB1T jmand it
B7&.T
3EEE
6338
L0 A , «EE
634.9
D3EF
6! 40
OUT (#EF>,fl iput 'writa' t>#«
DDTHIBB^
6331
DOITM
REE B.flK*24>
036F
CDA912
6=60
mi
CALL CLOSE K
8372
C3C105
6370
JP *83C1 tartd of ■£
B373
tianc
<S3BC
tfOTWQM
LD HL, SECTOR
8378
33
6998
DEC tHL I
S3 79
2BC3
61 l-v
JR NZ.ERALP
9376
1S£E
6619
JR QUITH 11* c#nt finc5 it
9370
DDE3
6620
CLPBUF
PUSH IX
037F
efcOfl
6638
LD B, 18
83B1
DD3447«0
*640
CLBLP
LD UX+-71) ,fl
B?B3
DD23
9659
SNC ix
0387
10F9
4AM
DJMZ CL9LF irnak* null *»ltn»i»
B3B9
DDEl
6678
POP IX
B 'i-:l
DDCB46CE
6681
SET l,fIX+7B> n..ri it \,%md
PTBF
C9
669B
7808
1
RET
7B1B
1 att«r part ? for different FtOMs
B39B
2IA3B3
702O
WATRM2
LD HL.OLD2
8393
3ADA16
7030
LD A,<»16DA)
B396
H6BB
7848
IB 6,11
8396
FEFF
7830
CP »FF
BJ°A
CA6C00
7060
JP Z.REDOLP
B39D
21CFB3
7878
LD HL,NEW?
93A0
C36C00
7 BOB
JP RED0LP
T h*» final touting km WATRHi, and Thlt doe* what's noceaaarv to ansurvthat the proqrtm
work* On all types ol ROM. As far as this program is concerned, (here't no d>fT*r*-nc*
between versions 2 and 3. so no extra stops ar* taken lor the latter version ol the
Interlace 1 ROM. You'll also find that th* code given In Running Repairs also works fine
on tho third version of the n0M.
7B98 | data
4 dp" old ROM
83R3 D3B2291B
7100 QLD2
DEFW
flS*l,Qf'EHM
03A7 S262EB0F
7118
DEFW
M2*1,CREATH
83 AP 2AS3E08F
7120
DEFW
fflJ+l,CRCATPl
S3AF FB623D12
7l?8
DEFW
M4+1 . WRBUF
93B3 63S3791B
7140
DEFW
M3+1,WRBIT
B397 S982P717
7138
DEFW
M6* i , MOTOR
B3BB 38a3F7i7
7160
DEFW
r!7*l, MOTOR
B3BF 6782C412
7178
DEFW
DOA0IN+1,»EKTHD
Z 41B3C4I2
7100
DEFW
ERALP*1,ME V TH0
B3C7 B3B2A919
7190
DEFW
M10+1,RDBVT6
S3CB 78B3A9J2
7200
DEFW
Mll+1 .CLOBEm
B3CF D382B31B
7218 NEW2
DEFW
MV+I.S1B03
B3D3 3262ASI9
7228
DEFW
f12*l,910A3
H3P7 2AB3A31B
727fl
DEFW
ti3+l»mBAS
83DB FBB22213
7248
DEFW
114*1,61322
01 DF 6383B313
7230
DEFW
ns+i,ms&3
BSE 3 59B23213
7268
DFFW
nb* 1 , a 1 532
83E7 38933213
7270
DEFW
K7*l.#t352
83EB &792A913
7260
DEFW
DUAQ1N*1 ,al3«9
B3EF 41B3A<?13
7390
PF f W
ERALF»1 ,»13A9
■3F3 BS92EB13
7300
DEFW
MI 8* I .»13EB
93F7 78B38E13
7310
DEFW
Mll*t,«l38E
COMPUTER GRAPHICS LTD.
SPECTRUM - COMMOOOfiE M - AM5TRAD - MSK - BBC MODEL 6 - COMPATIBLE
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SPRD
rams
What's slower than the C5?
Loading software into the
Spectrum, of course. So, speed
freak, SQ Factor has stuck the
go-faster stripes on his Speccy,
and taken it out for a spin. But
instead of aerodynamic spotters
he's gone for four fast tape
loading systems,
D'you remember the excitement when
the Microdrive was announced? The
iinticipation of speed — times never
before achieved on the Speccy. And
[hen, the long haul between promise Rod
delivery of the first not-quite-perfect
Microdrive v
Now you nn lunger have in wail an age
for them and the original, ridiculous
price of the cartridges has come down 10
an almost reasonable two notes. Bui the
Microdrive is no longer the only way of
super-charging your Spectrum, Without
going the whole hog and splashing out
more than the computer com on a disk
drive, you can LOAD at high speed in R
number of ways — and as you d expect
>".S has the dope. So, we told the dope to
draw up a chart of ah the info you need to
help you in your search for speed.
Our chart was prepared so you can
compare the features of each system in a
quick and easy to follow way. Ever} 'thing
thai cannot be compared directly in the
chart is discussed separately.
TIME CHECKS
The times in the chart were derived by
saving and loading the same program on
each system. For this, we used a truly
enormous BASIC program to wit:
lODlMaSOSOOO)
Once RUN, this program is about 35K
Bytes long! Several LOAD times were
averaged to get the times for the Micro-
drive and Wafadrive — both of these
require an 'access time" which lets the
drive search the tape for the file, as well as
the time needed to load the file once it
has been found. Access lime is not a
problem for the systems using ordinary
cassette tapes. The times for the Wafa-
drive were taken using a 64 K wafer
THE COMMON TOUCH
All of the systems:
■ Have a full through connection to the
Spectrum expansion port — or don't
obstruct it
■ Need no separate power supply
■ Can SAVE the usual types of Spec-
trum program or data or code.
■ Can SAVE a Basic program to autorun
I
And "rfC/Oemrt tai« the Hiq In ihe
Aul standing time al 12 iteondt A dl
winner if speed i four thing
Tiit Wafaduit Mi been wen lapped by
the hride i and tome i i n wilt) • lime ol 40
second* — gi|1 fh«rt it ii tarrying lug
8onn*i to bumper mln me Wttadme. Irw
Sprint tmtfit it jail ftafeiJlrtwpftfl
by 3 seconds
Liggi nq behind dl (tic lim sh Kwikloid
ihe outsider ol the uumn crosiei ihe line
in i lime ol one minuleltal
— though Kwiktoad is o struggle.
And the one feature that runs through
them all is tape. 1 would recommend in
every case that you keep backup copies
in the standard tape format. You could
get caught out if you rely totally on any of
these systems to hold your important
bits. Each system has plenty of oppor-
tunity for operator error to cause loss of
data, and of course, fast moving tape will
wciir out eventual I y
GET IT TAPED
Both Wafa and Micro drives can corrupt
a file and make it unusable if you turn the
power on or off with the cartridge in the
slot. Abu take care because both forms
of cartridge are easily damaged (though
the wafer less so) and impossible to
repair, In particular, if the tape is pulled
out of the cartridge even a little way, il
will never go back.
The Sprint mechanism docs not pre-
28
vent you from changing directly from
rewind to play, and if you do so you will
probably damage the tape, as the speeds
involved arc higher than ni irmal. You are
wanted •twtyi <- i use stop between func-
tions, but it would have been better if this
was built into the hardware rather than
left to the user's memory, This formal is
standard format (just played faster) but I
would still use an ordinary cassette recor-
der to back up really important stuff.
Kwiktoad is bound to catch you out
using the wrong numbers or trying to
SAVE with the LOAD program, simply
because its fiddly, but a bigger problem
may arise because it is trvine to do too
Lilted right ia the. complete run-down on
all four fait loader* - performance and
price. Chech out the apao before pi ■cinq
your bet on the winner.
Timing* for Wafadrlve ware taken using
the 64K wafer K w Ik load , T lm Inai do not
include the time taken to toad the
Kwiktoad routine* thamseh
SINCLAIR MICRQDRIVES
The original Microdrivcs may
not be (he heal, bul they arc
the faMeM lytteu reviewed
and what's more they are now
reasonably priced, It's also
worth noting thai software
producers have been known
to write for ihem sometimes.
Hit occasional lt»<ii file and
the 'full memory" hug hove
stopped rrn [uniingmy
Mn n Hlrncs to serious UK —
hut I have been known to lose
fiteaon ;■ disk computet, so I
mustn't be too hard on
Sinclair.
The 'full memory' bug
causes a crash if a large
BASIC program is LO Ailed
<>r even a small one if the
RAMTOP has been moved
down. This is caused by the
Microdrive's shadim ROM
not cheeking properly if there
is. space for both the program
and a 500 byte Microdrive
channel before I- O A Ding.
This can be bad news as it
crashes with the drives
running, which can corrupt
the tape when you switch off.
Further evidence of
dukinevi' is the fact that
inicrodrivc cartridges forma!
to a different size (in the
region of 90K) each lime you
format them. You may have
been advised to formal
repeatedly until you get the
largest number possible, hut I
believe thai the tew extra K
m a M peel. The whole
I mctte may merely foul your
drives into using part of the
tape which is on the edge of
reliability.
You can connect up to
eight drives to a -Spectrum via
Interface I. but vou onlv gel
one in the starter package.
Still, you akofet in RS232
port suitable for a printer (but
not usable with a full duplex
modern), and the Spectrum
network ports. It's said that
these will now pass data with
the latest version of the QI_
On the language front,
Microdrive syntax
unnecessarily tortuous, with
no defaults and tots of
needless punctuation
required. You have to specify
drive 1 even if you only have
the one. Wouldn't it be
simpler if number one MM
assumed to be present (father
than the network, say) unless
you told it otherwise? V ou
would save m symbols, many
of ihem needing two keys for
llu i. run man ds vnu are likck
to use most often with
Interface 1,
Instead of LOAD ""m:l;
why not use LOAD I for the
and LOAD n for the
network? I bal would activate
the error routine to page in
the shadow ROM just as well
as * does. Microdrive* were
long enough coming that
these rough edges should
have been knocked off well
before I hey were inflicted on
you and me. OK, you may
think I'm going on a bit, but
it's a fact thai the drives take
less time to LOAD a program
than it takes me to type in a
command telling them to do
it! I here is a saving grace
though — you can have a
program named "run" which
will LOAD and RUN jusl by
entering the keyword RUN,
ROTR0NICS WAFADRIVES
I he first thing you notice with
Wa fad rives is that you gel two
drives as standard. You also
get a bonus of RS232 and
Centronics ports. This must
make them a better buy than
a single Microdrive plus
Interface 1 at the same price.
lhe wafers themselves are
now more expensive than
Micro-cartridges, bul they
come in three sizes, 16K,
64K, and l28K;andthe
largest one has greater
capacity than a Microdrive
cartridge. The wafers are also
physically larger and rtmn
robust than Micro -cartridges,
with a sliding door to protect
the tape when it is removed
from the drive (lie access
time vanes according tOtbe
size of the Wider The shi irtest
for the ! 6K version was 6*5
seconds (worst case) as
opposed lo 45 seconds (worst
case) for the 12flK wafer. If
you "re after speed then go for
the shorter tapes, always
pt< tvided they're big enough
to hold your program.
There is a word processor
program in the package but
this is probably the on ji
software you will ever find
especially written for use with
the Wiifadrivc However,
Rotronies have converted a
number of games to wafers.
Transferring tape programs
on fo wafer is no more
Jitlicult than with the
Microdrive, However, you'll
use at least 2K RAM with the
wafer lysictn instead of the
half K needed for a
Microdrive channel, I his will
almost certainly make it
miptwablc io wafer many of
the larger games.
Wafer syntax is less of a
mouthful than the
Microdrive's as defaults arc
THE 35K GRAND PRIX
MICRODRIVE
WtfAORfVE
SPRINT
KWIKL0A0
HwtaiAwaaN
1 2 seconds
40 seconds
43 seconds
SOseconrJs
System Price
£99.95
£99.95
£64 95
i 4 95
■hiphh
£ 2.00
£ 3.65
E 0.50
£ 0,50
Media Capacity
Appron 908
16K.64K. or 128K 1300K (120 min cassette) 39GOK
Programs Available
In this Formal
Some
Some
Almost all'
None
RAM Used by System
600+ Bytes
?K * Bytes
None
220 Byte*
Simplest Case Syniax
LOAD "mM^name*
LOAD "name'
LDAD"
RANDOMISE 23552-35000+USR
653000
Time to FORMAT
35 seconds
2% Minutes
N/A
N/A
Approximate Actual
Transfer Speed
121 Kilobaud
18 Kilobaud
6000 Baud
4500 Baud
Worst Case Access Time
3 seconds
23 seconds
N/A
N/A
Size of Manual
61 page DooNlet
68 page spiral bound
6 page leaflet
18 page booklet
Mater Plus
Fasiest
Most for Money
Most Compatible
Cheap es l
Extras
four programs on
two cartridges *
demo * blank
Word processor plus
3 blank wafers
OfMme Switch
costs £5 extra
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Containing a professional standard manual, the Bumper Pec* is in fact a COMPLETE
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The system also supports 90 nominal account* 1 Summaries are than prepared by the
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bookeepmg in a fraction of the ume Gemini's Cash Book Acountirvg System is even
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Having prepared these summnrlea, and a Trial Balance, the software than allow* you
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CHAU£NGE SPRINT
The is a fast LOADcr that
takes standard tape software
It i* the ideal solution if you
jusl Willi to get stuck in
pronto without delving mm
the mysteries of protection
busting bo toaster tapes onto
.1 Li^ur medium liven
headerkss LOADs will work
with the Sprint, though be
warned* it can'i cope with the
now common l tirboload.
The price is the lowest o]
the hardware speed-ups. and
it onh needs the common
cassette. Hie syntax is a No
the teaM fussy of those
reviewed — the same as l«»r
ordinary tape. On top of this,
program* SA VEd on the
Sprint cm he LO ADed (at
ordinary speed) by a standard
cassette player. Total
comparibilltji J! B uM\onithlc
price HMtikl a eritie struck
dumb when trying 10 find a
wingc to put in the nun us
column. However, we al YS
try harder ( or the! Ed. ). si i
I'll note that the cassette unit
(MS a tinny feel, quite out Of
place in an item made of
plastic Just don't drop it and
you'll be all right, barfy
models wouldn't work wilh
some other peripherals,
notably the Microdrive, but
the latest verskm can be
switched out of ihc memory
map to avoid trouble.
This unit had (he tichicM
manual of the lot. but thai".
00 problem. What further
in st ructions do yon need'.'
KW1KL0AD
N i iw io the real ehtapie — * a
lurholoadcr of your very own.
Of course. :>[ this price you'll
have to put up with a few
drawbacks l-irslly, you'll
obviously have to LOAD this
tape in the standard formal
before you can use the
routine to do fast LQADs.
Secondly, il has a really user-
violent syntax made-up
mostly of numbers which
to lv worked out, even
for Basic LOADs. Thirdly, il
will be less reliable ihssn the
hardware upgrades because it
is pushing a standard cassette
recordc i n i its imutv And
lastly, it is the least fast of ihc
methods we've looked at.
On the plus side, the
routines occupy only 220
Bytes, tr uses ordinary (but
not cheapo) cassettes, the
speed is a useful trebling of
the standard rate, and since
you lire likely Io be using the
same tape machine tor SAVE
and LOAD, tin: reliability
should be better than with the
commercial fast loading
games. And dun : Forget thai
h costs less than a tenth of the
price of the Sprint.
Probably the be&i use fur
Kwikk/md is to make
turboloading copies of your
favourite games rather than
doing frequent backups while
developing your own
programs, lor this purpose,
the cassette contains a header
reader as ft ell. to help you
ferret out the addresses
needed 10 make such copi
Then arc separate prograifu
lor loading and saving, and
the whole business of making
fast loading copies in (he I
place is fiddly and lime
consuming Still, the end
result is a tape that has i he
tricky bits in a short Basic
header program. So in
practice, once you've done
the hard work, you can just
use LOAD "" to get your
program to turhoload.
►Sflfl TRIALS
much wilh Standard hardware. Unlike
the Sprint, which physically runs the tape
faster to get Us speed, Kwikload crams
three times as much data onto the same
length of tape. This pushes the average
cassette recorder to its limits, and you
will need good tape to get away with it.
TO WIND UP...
Used in accordance wilh theinstr actions,
any of the systems will give you much fas-
ter loading than you arc used to, and
reasonable re liability. The Wafadrive
and Microdrive have the advantage of
disk-like operating systems which start
the motor and find files without you hav-
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controls This is a definite plus and makes
up for having to cough up more for the
cartridges. A few billcr experiences with
ihc Microdrive bias me towards recom-
mending the Wafadrive or ihc Sprint, hut
if you're after speed then ihc Microdrive
must be a contender. More speed than
this can only come from disks but ihai is
another subject, and one thai we'll
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There's an eerie lapping in the hollow hails of Castle Rathbone, It's the
Green Gobtfn, Peter Shaw moving from room to room....
Welcome a d venturers, I'm
back this month with a
program thai c omb i ne s
ything v/e've coveted si >
far Wben you've mod n in.
you'll have a complete scenario
you can wander around in Vs
yet there's nothing: to pick up.
and no mowten to attack htn
introducing them at this poim
would only lead to confusion.
So. what have we got? If
you've been follow ma our
progress, you'll recognise the
routines used in the program
Spoi our old friend (he
command recognition routine
■a well .is tlic co n cep t ofihc
i nay,. The new materi
cation description routine
and the outside lines tft.it Mop
the whole program coming
apart u the seems.
v thJE point, it's probably a
:ji tod idea tosil dow n with y mi
Spcccy tad M.irt lapping in the
REM ROOM
to do
TO
GO
10 REM YG ADVENTURE ROTLilNE
20 POKE 73i3B,e
30 go sue vooot ren rooms
40 ao sue eoooi pause iwji
30 Input -hn#t do you *ant
at onm?" ,A»
60 FOR A* I TO LEN ft*
70 IF (d*(ftl<"0" OR AHA"->"*"*
R Rt(AI> H Z 1 ') THEN LET A* (A) -" "
BO NEXT A
90 FOR A-l TO LEN A*
tOO IF fttCftl*' ■ THEN LET C»-A*(
<-.-HO*(l AND (A* I) --LEW ft*) TO >■
110 NEXT Al LET Ct-A*
ISO IF L«-' , fiTQP" OR C#-"QUTT- THEN
130 IF LEN C*>0 AND LEN C*<-S THEN
"t TO LEN C*> AND ZtP.U-O THEN PRINT
ND EXIT NORTH
140 IF LEN C»>0 ANO LEN C*<-3 THEN IF
"t TO LEN G»> ANTJ Z'P.UOO THEN PRINT
T P-HP,ll
ISO IF LEN E*>0 AND LEN Ct<>3 THEN IF
-I TO LEN C*> AND Z<P,3>«0 THEN PRINT
WJ EXIT BG4JTH 1 -
»60 IF LEN C*>0 AND LEN C*<-3 THEN IF
"t TO LEN "".*> AND I(P,2K>0 THEN PRINT
T P-ZIP,2)
AND LEN C#<M THEM IF
Z!P,31-0 THEN PRINT *
DESCRIPTION
a or*
> AND (A* TAX "A" O
A-l)i LET
TO 120
STOP
IF C»
WORTH
THERE'S
C*- "NORTH
"■ok 1 *! i_e
C*-" SOUTH
"THERE'S
C*-"SOOTH
'"OK" l LE
AND LEN C»<-4 THEN IF C**"EABT H
IlP,3}<«) THEN PRINT ■"DX"! LET
AND LEN C*<-4
Z(P,4»-0 THEN
THEN IF E*-" h HE3T"
PRINT * "THERE 5 H
AND LEN C*<-4 THEN IF Cf-'WEBT *
ZtP,4lO© THEN PRINT *"OK* , l LET
170 IF LEN C*>0 AMD LEN C*<-4 THEN IF Cf- 1 EAST*
I TO LEN C*> AND i tP» 31-0 THEN PRINT '"THERE'S N
D EXIT EAGTt"
180 IF LEN CS>0
t TO LEN t#> AND
F-Z0?,3I
190 IF LEN C»>0
1 TQ LEN C*> AND
O EXIT WEST ■
200 IF LEN C*>0
< TO LEN C*t AND
P-Z !P„4)
210 FOR A-l TO SOi
220 GO TO 40
SOOO PAPEJ* RMM7* BORDER
BOIO GO TO 8OOO+<P*l00) I
N OF PRESENT RQ0T1
HI 00 PRINT "THE ENTRANCE
GllO PRINT
8120 PRINT "Thtl I* * •JH»il
an door laading to thp
H130 RETURN
PRINT "THE OINIMO HO0H"
PRINT
PRINT "Thar* *r» ttir** poasibla ax lt«
roo*. That" a North, E»t And South."
RETURN
PRINT "THE KITCHEN"
PRINT
PRINT •Tha Kltchan la quit* • »m*ll
tuara *r* two aMita tor you ta iaav*
NEXT A ■ PAUSE 50
RND«7» INK 9i
REH FIND ROOn
HALL"
CLS
0E5CR1PT10
•quara
Couth. 4 '
room mi than op
•300
8210
B220
tchla
0230
B30O
8310
0320
, but
You can atthar go North or t»«t."
033O RE TORN
8400 PRINT "THE MAIN BEDROOM"
8410 PRINT
6420 PRINT "Thi* la prob*tily th» luggut
in tha whola iirjuie. Th#ra *r* t**o anlta,
th* South wall arid »l«p ona In tha WMt. 1
0430 RETURN
B300 PRINT "THE CLOSET"
8310 PRINT
«r«
ptaca
by.
roam
ana in
listing.
Done that? JolJ) good
I akkig ihk u ptt*t!ram from the
top you II have noticed thai the
74. ) array h only called once, at
the beginning, I hat '% why I
rucked h i*») In • subroutine
ririht ;it the end of the program
Our n^st step is in call thv
k^calion description routine
Which is also tucked •
that it doesn'l interfere with the
rest "i iht program Ni^,
you've probably already
spotted whcf£ you/ Itieatinri is
held throughout the progf
Ism not in ease, n^in P The
iocatiopi ite-vci ii-'i i* in routine
ustv triiv info, jumps to the
rjgbt part i>( the code and
lays the ■
description Couldn't be
simpler!
On k;ii the
conrtm.irid recognition routine
Yes, it's Mill jn>1 itiL 1 Aniii/inti.
vocahutai*) <>l m\ ««ird!» —
\onh. South, East, West, Stop
andOuu - bin \ I he
.ibout ready to start expanding
it on your own now.
Next month I've hot the
(be&ng wen- jjoing to run
serosa some of 'he nastier
deni/ens of the adventun
world. Irkc gnostics ;md
lies and mtmstaaiiituagh!
'VMUMG8UL
When it comes to adventures,
Dave Nicholls is certainly not
green — so he lakes a look al
Emerafd Isle and draws some
conclusions about the
Illustrator.
EMERALD ISLE
Level 9 £6.95
lt\ always been tricky to find
fault wnii i eve] 9*s
adventures un technical
grounds, They have had one
miijoi drawback though —
I he £0.fJ5 price litgf Let's
hope 1 ha I Emertttd hk
represents a i of heart
- it fetiiKfnr C6 95, I he
tjiiL'si ion is. i il o misc. ha& the
quality of the jjatne suUcrcd?
Well, as Tar as I cjh see the
answer's no; there arc still
over 2tx> locations and ba^s
trf atmosphere and pu/yi
You arc the piloi of a light
-iircTs-.fi. forced to bail >>ut
white Hying through ttu
Berihttiln Triangle. Al tiu'
start you're ti > be (bund
hanging by jfour parachute
(nasty liti f from a tree on a
strange island. Once you've
COtne down to eiirth, you're
faced wiih the harder task of
•imlni'.' .1 wa| ofl ttie island —
i nd only the ruler of the land
is allowed to Icav l I be i:l hhI
news though B that the throne
is up for grabs — the bad
new*, is that you have lop>
yourself worthy!
Ever) location has long
textual deseri] long
with a picture filling the lop
halfofth rL It's ash
but the pictures don"i reaDj
.iild | I • ■ C to the iMmeand t
tended to lurn (hem olt .•■
.< wink io srKxd things up.
The atmosphere b
maintained by loads of
different messages and you'll
get a 'clever' response to most
..mr inpuiv I wasn't 10
sure about (he I nearly
understand' message though
I in sun n means nothing
of the soft!
If you're a fan of Level 9,
then ail you need to know is
thai they've done it again. If
you're new to sdventuringOf
ii v. m've ahvays shied .iway
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<:, then timtraht hit
eould be just l he introduction
you've been wuitin^ f< >r.
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When GUsofl lirst hrought
oiu the Quill, lex t- only
•dventnras were the norm.
No* I hey have come up with
flu- fflsts f f taft a r w h i ch allows
you rO add full screen
graphic*, to Quilled
■dventtnei V 'on can (htn
save the fume independently
of both The Quill N^ The
Witstramr
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When the pri^ram's
loaded, a largish menu
appear, listing the vat
upturns open to you;
normally lh< ill
choose k'lOAXt
DATAB .his loads m
the first few bytes of a
previously created Quill
datahw Then The
lUusiraiot finds null how
many locations there are >inil
how much space \- available.
Now coma ihc creative hit.
Once you've told the program
■uj game ynu ran t.i
on wnh the huiines* of
chawing pictures. Each p»ecy
red not as a scries of
• tike R Spectrum
SCREENS, hut instead it"*
kept as a scries of commands
that recreate the original
when vim play it hack. This
s one hell of a lot of space
hut it don mean that you've
got to start with a pretty good
idea id what [he final picture
vsilt look like. And vJtnOOgfa
editing facilities arc provided,
,nn mistake i ^oing
nght hack to square one,
I herd arc commands for
point plotting and line
riniu injj as vw II as several fill
routines and an excellent
shading command that lets
you produce a stipple effect
Vou can ■Jsodcfkic pictut
a> subroutine*- .md use them
over and over again, If I haw
a nieglc it's the lack of code
and arc drawing com maftds
though this can he got round.
AH in all, iht ituatntm is
an excellent t n to
The Quilt It'll produce sonic
wry good pictures, subject 10
amsric ability, of course —
Mhieh I'm rather jshoTt of!
A pretty good
likeness of the
snake from the
Hatloflh*
Mountain King
drawn sn the
lllu&trAlor by
lomeo n r w i th no
artistic talent!
BSZO PRINT "Thie l * the smallemt room In thehcfu**
» with an en it to the North and also one to the We
at."
0330 RETURN
e-OOO REM S£T UP II) ARRAY
90JO PIM 1(3,41
902O for A-l TO 3
9030 FOR B»l TO 4
T04O READ Z(A,bt
9030 NEKT B
«OeO M£XT A
TO7*> DATA 0,3,0,0
TOBO DATA I ,3,«,Q
"WO DATA 2,0,5*0
9)00 DATA 0,5,0, 2
71 lO DATA 4,0,0,3
■?12i> LET P-li REM 61 ART IN ROOM 1
9tI0 RETURN
The Hobbil II ain't, but at to**t this program will allow you to
grat|) the idea of command recognition and room layout.
Brief Encounters
A quick mention for a coupU
Kidies thill came our way
this month. The fu
(. onfuttrrttuil 'I mm a new
compan) called Radar Games
character callod
( taig Adams whtia tint to
the case of a missim:
person. This involves
questioning suspects, i rid
following up dues,
< i •ufnicniniT& w r it ten * n h
fiw Quit? Mid coats Ih.y? from
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[he ot her game is Talisman
from Games Workshop. It's
not realty an adventure,
'h. more .nt animated
strategy game in winch up 10
four players (either computet
or human controlled fsean h
for a legend;! ry source of pi nwer
that'll give them control of the
bod i Ik ;-'.!• :■ all bad
hut what struck nu 11
the tntcUigencc of the
computer controlled
characters. A pretty brainy
hunch — while I was pJayiV
demo game with all foui
characters controlled by d
hi h hine. oneol them s<d\i-d
the t| i
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horror, it looks almost identical to the last megagame from Ultimate,
Knightlore — the same number of rooms, the same 3D graphics, just
substitute a dinky robot for Sabreman and the Werewutf, But first
impressions aren't always best as Ross Holman and Chris Wood found
out when they started playing . . .
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So now we know, The reason nobody can
hear you scream in space is . . . they're all
frozen stiff. Or rather they are "cryogeni-
cally immersed', for Alien Scones with
the same sort of instructions as U Inm-
ate's other recent games. Enigmatic is an
understatement. Obscure, opaque,
mysterious or just plain umntelligahle
would be closer. Certainly, lots of long
word. 1 ; and not many facts to join them
Together.
Much easier to pick up the gist of the
plot by playing. All you need to know is
that you are a robot, sorry, cyhol, pro-
grammed to look iifter all the needs of the
frozen astronauts, off on a jolly jaunt to
colonise distant worlds. Unfortunately,
the ship has been invaded by aliens and
the life support systems have been
damaged. You now have to reactivate
theSC systems before the astronauts turn
into real stiffs.
Reactivation is achieved hy collecting
"thermolec valves' (different shaped
objects) and plugging them inlo the cry-
ogenic sockets (holes to plug in different
shaped objects). With 24 chambers to be
reactivated and only 5 initial replace-
ment packs (lives), it's not a task that'll he
completed firsi time out. You're going to
have to gel used «o the screams of a lot of
defrosting spacemen as they re-enter the
atmosphere. Luckily, on the Speccy
nobody' 1 1 hear them
Any resemblance to any other Ultim-
ate program is purely uncoincidcntal.
And sure, you're going to think you've
been conned by a clone when you first
load il up. But once you're into i he game
you'll see that ii's much more complex
than its predecessor and perfect* all the
techniques thai Knighdore prepared us
for.
So, now check out our map and start
planning your movements with the mic-
rowave on legs. O s
HACKER'S
We haw lift Qtf . ..Dave
Nicholls and Chris Wood
blast their way into the
backers " hyperspace of
Ultimate 's Allen 6.
"How do I become a
hacker? * That \ a question
more and more of you arc
writing in to us at V5toask.
I'o pul it hlunlty, » lol nf you
are trying to run before you
can walk. If you really waftj In
become j red-hot hacker then
you've got to be prepared to
put in some graft. I he best
vj\ to gain the necessary
experience is to gel out thin
and start writing machine
code progra ms of your own .
Only then will you start to get
the feel for [he hacking game.
Learning to hack is a bit
like teaming to read — first
you learn the 7M(\ instruction
set (your alphabet) and then
you 11 begin to recognise the
groups of instructions which
make up common
subroutines (words). Soon
you'll surprise you rselfwhh
the speed you've started to
hack at. instead of giving up
in despair, you'll be
recognising whole chunks of
code at a glance.
However, you'll always
come across games which
don't seem to fit in with ill
you've picked up previously.
3D games are the biggest
headache in this direction tad
what's Aden 8? — why, a 3D
game, of courac, The
standard way of tackling 3D
graphics requires a lot of
maths and .i loi of late nights
hut at least you'll be able to
hack into it. Alien a, like a lot
of arcade pmes, doesn't use
the bog-standard method, of
course, because that would be
just too slow. At first glance ,
ihc toughest part of the whole
priH.es.v is overwriting.
fliis means llial once a room
is set up, the programmer can
start filling it from the back'
so that the objects which
appear nearer to you
"overwrite" everything behind
them, The maximum number
of distinct objects in a room is
an incredible 56 and it only
takes one slip-up to ruin the
whole optical illusion.
Ultimate write everything
imluilly to a buffer high up in
memory and then the final
stage is locopy the whole lot
into screen HAM where you
can see it. Most games which
use a screen buffer (JSW is a
prime example) use the LD1R
instruction to copy to the
screen. Of course. Ultimate
have got to be different —
they copy line by line from
ihe bottom up 1 Flirl it's not
MiKxJy- minded news, just thai
[hey write their programs on a
machine Wilh an identity
- it only thinks it's a
Spectrum ( delusions of
grandeur, eh? — Ed),
Ulti mate's code is slick and
professional hut il bores mc.
Alien 8 is no except ion. ["his
time I managed to catch them
out though — in one part of
the program there's a jump
made to ihc very iu -\\
i uciiori. Its a bad Dibit to
get inlo, as it wastes space and
time, though it makes
assembly listings much mote
readable for us hackers. So, as
space isn't a problem m Alien
8, I'll let them off jusl this
once but it'll be a hundred
lines each if 1 catch them
doing it again!
For all that, I've got to
hand it to Ultimate, Alien fi
was a tough one to crack.
Since our last hack into one of
their games, they've made a
few improvements to the
speedloader they use — it's
even acquired a name,
Spccdlock At any rate, it's
been s couple of times round
the track since it was used foi
Decathlon.
A her [hal. it seemed a
doddle wriling an infinite
lives program. So easy in fact
thai I added the facility for
infinite time. Now the clock
wraps right round when it
ge L\ to zero. It's a bit of an
anti-climax when you run oui
of time anyway — we were
ex petting, if not a big bang,
(hen a bit of a whimper as the
space ship cntersthe
atmosphere and your
unfortunate astronauts
frazzle. Mo such luck.
The second program is a bit
specialised but ! rather like it
and thought you mighi too
1 1 |x it in and alter the tines
that are indicated and you'll
have a program that saves any
screen at any stage nf the
game to tape, just by pressing
Pause and then the S key.
Think of the fun you can have
— save a series Of Knees
onto tape, dump (hem onto
your printer and turn them
ntfQ your very own Alien 8
cartoon. Send them in so wc
Can all have a look. Software
prizes for the funniest!
Al 'I'Toubleshootin" Pete'*
insistence, I've made things a
bit easier this lime as some of
you had a few problems with
Underwurtde and
Ghmthwters ami he couldn't
help — he's i malty meJes ( w
what's ne* f Ed \ when it
comes, to helping win
hacking problems, It's now a
one stage operation. After
typing in the program and
running il you should get a
STOP statcmenl" message. If
you get 'F:.KKOR in DATA',
go fetch and cbecfc s >. »u* data
If all's well, ynu can now take
out line 25 and save the
program — nest time you use
it you can just run it. Then
enter "GOTO 3ft" and put
your fully rewound Alien 8
tape into the cassette recorder
and press play, The game will
now load and give you infinite
Hvcs and time. Dont worry
thai the name 'A lien H'
doesn't appear on the screen,
it's just that the program
ignores Ihc header on ihc
tape. If the second part of the
tape fails to loud straight after
the hrsi pari, you'll have to
rewind and Mart again. If
there are any el rors i tie
program keeps trying Ui
reload rather than stopping
wilh an error message.
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110 DATA 193,0,99
Thlfc program will give you Infinite robot replacement packs and
tho u« h il h on'l stop the doc k , lt*i glva you all tha llmi In ih*
{other} world.
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TOP
23 STOP
110 DATA 17, 60,240,35, 66, 230,1,130, 0,237, 176, 33,
60 , 240 , 34 , 60 , 206 , 6Z , 240 , SO , 3 , 9? ,30 . 1 48 , 1 66 , t 93 , ,
99,203,39, J B3,243, 211 ,233,62,253,219,234,203,79,3
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Now I've said it before in the prc\ i
Codcbustcr articles hut it's worth repeat-
ing just in case there's anyone who still
doesn't believe thai software piracy is
illegal or wrong. It is, on both counts and
neither 1 nor Your Spectrum will ever
condone it. It harms the magazine, it
harms the software companies hut, worst
of alt, it harms you and me, the people
who buy software.
So. if you've got any ideas thai this arti -
cJe will aid you in your attempt to make a
killing al tape copying, you d be better
off reading Computing for Petty Crimi-
nals or simitar unworthy rags. I'm writing
only for the dedicated hacker who is
excited by the challenge of breaking into
programs 'because they're there', Nuff
said.
TAKING CONTROL
Generally the only way tc? get into a pro-
tected program is lo nobble it before it
runs I Once the code gets control, the
programmer will have fixed things so that
you can never seize the reins again. The
dedicated hacker gets around this incon-
venient I at I by using a customised ROM
incorporating his own BRkAK routines
Rut clever and /or unusually paranoid
Protection Artists have taken to adding
routines to check that the standard Spec-
trum ROM Ls still there before allowing
the program to continue!
Some programs do this during the
I.OADing. and then use up several
Kbytes in pure misdirection before get-
ting to a oil of code that unscrambles the
encrypted program and then erases itself,
disappearing up its own tailpipe. Others
apparently check for the presence of the
ROM constantly dun np play, and it
immediately crashes when the custo-
mised ROM is paged in.
CRASH BARRIERS
How do they check (hat the ROM is
there? Obviously they can't check the
whole ROM, byte for byte, without
I.OADing a copy of il. a pure waste of
I r>K, They can check the whole thing by
adding up all the bytes modula 25©,
which means throwing away any part of
I he sum which overflowed one byte, You
would then have only one chance in 256
of your custom ROM adding up to the
v-i me byte. However, this actually takes
some time, so it can hardly be used within
the action.
Usually only a few key hytes can be
checked, so which are chosen? Obvious
candidates are the various bits of the
initialisation code, starting at address 0.
I his address u often used as a 'crash and
hum' jump for destroying anything that
the program thinks might have been felo-
niously LOADed by a hacker. This is the
address that all the crash on BREAK
protection (apes rely on to wipe the
memory when you fiddle, and BO a Custo-
mised ROM might be expected to disable
this initialisation routine, as we suggested
in our last article,
NON-MASKED BALL
Another candidate b (he non-maskable
interrupt routine al 66H, This has been
crmbb
The true hacker enjoys the baffle of wits with the protective
programmer. Terry Bulfjb tips the scales your way.
wasted in the Spectrum. It ulmosi pro-
vides a redirectabk recet to the address
stored in the two spare' locations in the
System variables at 23728, hut for a
'jump not zero' instruction being used
instead of a 'jump if zero', In my custom
ROM, 1 have rewritten this non-mask-
able interrupt lo jump to my own de-trap
and BREAK routine.
The non-maskable interrupt is
actuated by its own line (NM1) on the
expansion bus being grounded momen-
tarily, and the non-maskable' means
that it can't be disabled by the 'disable
interrupt' instruction. This makes it an
obvious choice for the hacker's custom
ROM rewrite, and therefore a target for
the Protection Artist's search and des-
troy routine.
Checking lot hacker's rewrites is made
easier b\ I that there is not a lot 4 »f
code in the ROM that can be displaced
by one's own routines without causing
trouble with programs lhal use l Ik: ROM
for minting, WC. If you have a large cus-
tom ROM. or rather EPROM, or even
RAM, then you can use the area from
3tioEH lo 3C>TH for your own code, as
the Spectrum doesn't use il Howevt
you have only a small custom ROM
(mine is just a IK 2708 I PROM pro
grammcr board designed originally tor
use with hi < into supcrboni m>*
heavily messed about), then you can
make use of the memory in ihe 'token
table' from ^5H to I FDH. Your BASK
keywords will not be recognisable if you
rewrite this station, but every thing else
40
will work. Unless the Protection Artist
checks up on this area, that '*
CUSTOM BOARDS
kk;illy, a custom ROM or RAM bond
will be set up so you can easily switch it in
or out of the memory map. Indeed, with
RAM this is l necessity, or you would
never He able to start the Spectrum up in
the mornings. With IK of RAM located
in ihe lowest IK eif the uUdr ess space, the
sequence goes something like this: Turn
on the Spectrum with the RAM paged
out, SAVE the SpecCy ROM to tape
(SAVE "ram" CODE 0,1025), type in
LOAD" "CODE then play the tape
soon as the header has LOADcd switch
in the RAM. This hus in be after the
header, or the printing of ihe header
name, which uses a jump at address 1 Oh,
will cause a crash. You then have a copy
of the ROM on board in rewrites ble
RAM, This will only work with a 1 k cus-
tom RAM, as the tape murines start at
about the beginning nl the second K, and
they would disappear when the RAM
was switched in. larger custom boards
will require a small M/C routine.
One thing to watch out for when using
RAM in the ROM area is th;U the Si
irum BASK actually corrupts the Erst
fewbuc^o) the RAM at addresses! i to S,
This seems to happen every time you
drop out of a program with STOP or an
error message or even when you enter a
command for immediate execution.
Ordinarily, this won't matter, because
fhjt pari of the ROM is only used at
power- up, but since the Protection Artist
is likelv to check here, it makes using a
ROM -in- RAM type of custom ROM
rather more difficult Why Ihe Speccy
ROM tries to write over itself is a mystery
to me. If and when I find the bit that's
doing it. I expect to be appalled at the
sloppines.%, hut as I haven't found It, I had
better control the rihald disparagement
for now.
Some programs load not just the whole
of the RAM. but also load over the
ROM, so if you don't page out your
ROM 'in- RAM custom isation while
I ( lADtng, it will be convened back to
the standard ROM contents!
If the custom ROM (or rewritten
RAM) can be switched in at exacity the
same time t hat the N M I is activated, then
no amount of checking up by ihe Protee-
linn Artist will keep you out. With
computer speeds, "exactly means that
you will have to use a bit of silicon to do
the switching, rather than just a double
pole mechanical switch, but if you have
already built yourself a piece of move-
able memory map then the exlra few
gates won't give you any problem.
EASY ENTRY
Not everyone. I realise, has the skill,
.or even the cash for building the
kind of hacking hardware we're talking
about here. Don't be downhearted.
though, as it still is — and always will be —
possible to hack into the headers of
Speccy progs, whatever the Protection
Artist hurls at you Hardware jusl makes
il casieT. or at least it used to before the
PAs started in on that loo.
However, it is occasionally possible to
catch the PA oul in an uncharacteristic
lapse. It is when he is feeling most secure
thai he is likely, while assembling his
armour, to ahscntmindcdly drop the
codpiece behind the sofa The Eta leader
has brought oul the laziness in some of
the breed, and ibey forget all they have
learned at their computer s knee.
There is a very simple trick which I
have kept under my hat until now
beCBtUG once everyone knows about it,
steps will be taken against il in all future
programs. Luckily for you. I can contain
myself no longer. J his is one that anyone
can use, sans hardware, sans money, sans
mental effon,
I irst the lazy Protection Artist
thoroughly disables the BREAK key
and finds ihat this also takes care of anv
'STOP in INPUT type of BREAK. He
may then decide to use a Basic routine for
INPUT instead of writing his own when
he wants yon to Input a name, especially
if SAVing or LOADing a partly com-
pleted adventure. My, on tape. Certainly
ihe usual Basic BREAKs like Capshifl 6
or entering 'STOP will be useless. He
will have checked For those before he got
lazj
The trick is to erase the quotation
marks with ihe cursor keys and
DPI KIK and then type CHRS USR
4867 and ENTER (using the keywords i
I his is accepted by the Basic as a string
which it must find by converting a CODE
into a character, and the CODE is to be
found by calling the machine code rou-
tine at 4807 decimal. Naturally, calling
thi', machine code address results in a
BREAK, because 48f»7 decimal is our
old buddy 1303 hex!
LABEL
ASSEMBLER
COMMENT
SHIFT
D!
;Mustn i have interrupt with no ROM
LD
HL,0
;Move ROM contents to high
LD
OE.OflOOOH
.memory
LD
BC04000H
LOIR
LOOP
LD
A.07FH
:Wait unlit SPACE impressed to
IN
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RRCA
JRC
LOOP
MCI
LD
HL.08&OOH
;Move contents back to ihe RAM
LD
BC, 04000 H
;nowinthaROM 'sslot
LDIH
El
Otherwise locked oul
RE1
If the crush-on BREAK traps were set.
then this w ould cause a crash, but the UK
S/. trap cannot be used, because the
INPUT command uses the lower screen,
and the ERR SP irap is simply by-passed
by the USR call directly to the end- I
program routine at 1 303H I know of at
least two recent top selling programs that
this wheeze does work on, neither of
which it an adventure, as it happens.
Any program that gives you a flashing
cursor flanked bj aDOt&fJofl marks will
fall for this, so gel digging in that pile of
old tapes, 'cause you will not find ii on
any new ones from now on I hat's the
problem with hlahhermouu rte
Thlt 1m the machine cod* routine if you are u»loq a custom board large* than IK-
CODE CURES
If u«u followed alt the < '* Hjchustcr
articles you're probably a pretty
proficient backer by now. Or perhaps
you reckon you were one anyway Well,
now's your chance to put yourfltfS to
the lest.
That's right we're setting you some
hocking homework, Terry has written a
cracker of a program designed 10 test all
chniques which you've picked up
in his article v
So, heads down and get cracking —
it's the only way you're ever going lo
make it to a (any fledged (."odebuater.
Follow the instructions exactly M
listed below
I Type the program in txut-ttyns shown.
Don't even mess about with the line
numbers.
2. SAVE it whh i it no 9999 to have an
unprotected copy to use again. This bt
especially important incase you've
made an error when typing it in.
3 RUN it to produce the protected
( i )1 )| LOAD, after which it NEWs
itself. Make sure you'vi fi iflowed the
instruction^ in 1 ritv iyc i M you'll have |o
type ii all in again.
4 Do LO A DECODE to load the
protected program
tO CLEAR SOOOO
20 FDR i-SOGOl TO SOOZ4
40 FUEftD el POKE 1 t *t NEXT i
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1,193,229,237,113,61 ,92.173,30,6
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< >k, hmtc rn, can you crack if? There
:i tl- si least three w:ns t<> crack this one
Lind ul I have Ken revealed in
Godebustera One is a snap, one is a
chore, and one is so-so. Maybe you'll be
the one lo find us a fourth, but
remember — nobody love* ii ciewei dick.
•0 I here are no prizes (and no, ir"i not
we'rtlootfWt But think of
the satisfaction you'll get from knowing
thai you've done a hit of breaking and
entering and got away with it
So hackers, drop us a line with all
your clever tales of how you manured 10
take m to ihe cleaner*. Get husiin"
41
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The DAT AP EN 1 1 ant pen enables
you to create high resolution
pictures and technical layouts
d irectl y on your TV screen. The
accompanying software allows
you to draw any shape or tilled
Qf&a you wish, to pixel
occuracy. In full colour and the
results ma y oe utilised within
your own programs, e g. tot
animation, or to 1 1 lusfrate your
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the Da to pen light pen package
represents superb value - just
look at the a c tua I screen
photographs and you will agree
thai this must be the best value
tor money on the market
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• Push button operation on pen- no
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*fl»i-r. n*" m . ' ,l' iiit art J
p(lf riifJirf«i o r '""""•""
( /j before the beaks — Duvc Nichulls. linger Willis rrni/Ross MoIfikiii — comes ail the new
games software, from the greatest to the grottiest.
PSYCHEDELIA
UamasottmOQ
Dave: Have f >u ewt had the urge to fly
aerobatics with the Red Arrows? You
have? — then ti nd buy
Psychedeha. It's nol a flight simulator but
the feeling of nausea (hat came over me
while waggling the joystick with it. was.
like nothing on earth! What's mo
Psyched eim isn't a game: it's really a sort
i if light synthesiser where you use the
joystick (Off keyboard) to produce
patterns on sercen It off en the fftt
Kn presenting patterns so you can play
them hack with a single keypress, and
your efforts can be recorded into memory
unto tape for later playback. Think of
it — now you and your friends csrn bring
on an attack of nausea and dimness at
parties without so much as a drop of pop
passing your lips.
It may he true that you are limited only
by your imagination for so n says here),
but boredom (and an unwell feeling)
in long before \'ii even got my
imagination into gear.
Irs worth a look — otherwise a ride on
a Waltzcr at the fun fair is cheaper sod
much the same
effect. t/5
Rossi Not the sort of thing you expect
from left Nast-n-if-ii-niovev Miulcr I
prefer watching pictures, not p ata M P S
erupting from my T.V,
screen. .
Roaart Turn on, lune in and drop out or,
in my case, drop off to sleep. When old
hippies aren't bogarting that pint, they're
producing crap like
this 2/5
MOONCRESTA
Incentive Sflttwart /T*-95
Davti Mooncresta is an officially ticeneed
copy of the same name arcade game, and
as you'd expect, it includes ail the main
features of l he original. If you've ruser
seen it ( which pu m misspend
NtfA in: 1 — td), the basic idea is
just Itr .1 change, to zap aliens I here are
fbw types and each of them appears for
creens in succession. Your ship k
made up of throe parts, the first of which
is giver to you gratis, bul you've got to
cam the rest. You get ihc ncxi pan by
clearing four sheets, after which yow have
to carry out a successful docking
manoeuvre. Two more sheets — waich
out for the nasty surprise — then a repeat
performance of the ducking procedure.
H, or should 1 say, m. hen you get killed
you'll lose one pari of your ship
Incentive has done a reasonable job
translating Mooncresta to the Spectrum
but it's a bit lung in the tooth now So.
un|css you're an arcade freak who likes
lOOttBg million', it won't have much
lasting appeal. Still, if you ore in arcade
freak, vou'll be itching to have a crack at
Incentive's Attumcresta competition —
the booty is li real arcade | in ■
machine of the game. 2 > ! /5 sa 1 1 1 M
Ross: It's taken aeons for this old arcade
classic to appear on the home computer
market It plays fair ly close to ihc original
and kept me amused for an ajTT" L »
hour or two, or three si < I I ssl
It advertise* a Trip I o I he Space
War' hut give me a trip to Margate than
yci another trip hack down
memory lane. 2/5
ZJU2
WIZARDS LAIR
Bubblebui £6.95
Roger: 1 i mng finally overcome Pothole
Pete's frustrating reluctance to LOAD.
let atone summon up the necessary bolt li-
fer tackling many moms (if the wicked
Wi/'s extensive and wcllappoinled Lair,
I was s omew hat less than enthralled by
th is Bubhleh us offer . r t from
being as bored with a predictable ragbag
of Sword'n'Sorccry imagery. • found the
graphics rather lurid, the rooms
unmemorahle and the action mentally
iinimytpg.
Pete's quest involves hunting pieces of
the Golden Lion' — which 1 always
thought w;t> a public house but
apparently in this game it ain't. Shame,
Along the way he must collect the
necessary mystic Wcctahix to sustain his
battle against nasties and keep the jofij
old doors opening when required
fnergy, ammunition and objects in stock
arc recorded on-screen, as are remaining
lives. Probably ih iiicrtHining facet
nl H tzar d '& Lair is guessing how many
nt her mediocre i reminds you of.
Pass me the dungeon key. mum. » t r ti
'cos J want to go home... 1/5 ■-- 1 t^-J
Daw: If this had come out at the same
time as Auc Atac. Lin male woukJ'vc
looked very silly. Now the idea's raihcr
old hat and even the superior
graphics don't make up for that — i 1 1 ■
■ ■II m
floss: lake a dash of A tic Atac ideas, mix
in more than a smattering of Sabre Wulf
graphics and whatVe you got?
— not a lot. 2/5
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203 SPFC1RUM48K
BUGGY BLAST -
Space Mission Simulation
JOYSTICK JURY
MALAGA
Interceptor So Itware/TS. 50
Rost I he federation of Space Rest-arch
has just found it new >ulat system called
Cygnus Major and they want it explored
for mineral resource*.
When you arrive you find thai ihc
•.pace invaders don'l like having their
SpaCC invaded and arc hell ben I on your
destruction, 1 he <-n l> way for you to swot
the insect -I ike creatures is 10 use your
anti-maiter plasma gun
This game is in fact very loosely based
on the arcade favourite Galaga and is a
2nd generation Galaxians, This version
does nut have ail the fey lures ot I he
origimil liui is iicveMhedess a reasonable
shoot 'cm up and will keep your trigget
GngCT in pood shape. The aliens swoop
OOtO screen,, do a few twirls and
pi rou cites, dropping bombs as they go,
then fall into formation. This continues
until ihc screen is fairly full up with in em.
at which point they begin to drive down
on individual kamikaze stsle bomb runs.
Once you have cleared the skies the
inevitable happens, Yes. they all Come
hack hut arc just that bu mease*
Nothing new again bm
O.K..
3/5
hes
Roger: There are no flies on me but the
same cannoi be said for this dose of
futuristic insecticide.. i | 1 1 . f j
Dave: I tie shooi'em up is alive and
kicking. Fasl, frantic, colourful and m
— just the thing for an even-
ing of mindless slaughter. / s
RAID OVER MOSCOW
U.S. Gold/C9.9S
Dava: A pre-empnu- strike has been
launched by the Ruskies and your duty »
to Iced your airborne commandos 10
destroy the S< r\ fc i defence centre,
J km off, you 11 get a view of Russia
and the US as seen from space showing
luuch sites anil targets in the two
countries I he time to impact of the
launched missile neks awav. so you've no
time to lose. The number of fighiers you
can manoeuvre out of the hanger
determines how many you have in the
ground attack sequence. Here you fly
from left to right negotiating pill boxes,
trees, towers and avoiding tanks,
helicopters and deadly heal seeking
missiles whilst wreaking as much
destruction and havoc as poss.
wiu ii fen reach the launch silos your
target computer helps you to line up and
iy them. Once that's done yoi
free {well, this is | democracy!) to attack
Mi >s hen it's on again to
annihilate the robou protecting the
nuclear reactor If you can kill enough of
them you'll live to fight another day in
the battle between Marx and
MacDonaUls, If not. then it's Mutually
Assured Destruction m~i"i"rhjB
li t I M
Roger: (ili yow finger on the button with
sjcko software ihat extracts leehmcally
Bent entertainment from ■ 1 1 » ■
nuclear nightmareal ! RjJJJH
Ross: Praise for its originality and
cleverness has to be icmpcrcd with moral
abuse but ii is, nevertheless,
a direct hit with no
survivors. . , 5/5
HIT
TOY BIZARRE
Acti ¥i a on; £ 7. 99
Roger: Lightning fast arcade action occurs
as you feebly attempt to keep up Merlon
the Maintenance Man's work rule in ihi>
simplistic game of platform pretension.
Our Men's nighi shift is supposed to be
in a toy factory where valves blow up
balloons which, in ihcir turn, convert into
terminal toys if not avoided and/or dealt
with. Just to complicate mailers a little,
an unpleasant character called Hefty
Hilda wanders about, turning back on (he
valves Merlon has turned off and
thoroughly nobbling the poor devil in ihc
event of, er, body contact, Piston
platforms can also deliver unpleasant
surprises to both hero arid villaincss. The
single screen wraps round' so exiting our
hero from one side. Within Its lel.iiively
limited content, Toy Bizarre hangs on as
reasonable cntcrtairmicjii value for lh
wiiti qukfc reaodoni but if* difficult to
avoid thinking (bat this is one format ihat
has almost been caned a rm m
to death IjJLLB
Dart; This game is in need ot some
maintenance — the controls are sluggish
and the collision detection leaves a lot to
.sired, Unfortunately, Morton the
Maintenance Man isn't up to
Rose (his is a fairly simple platform game
with nice graphics and some novel Ide
but not much else, f liked the ball
but was bored by the
rest. 2/5
ms
WRIGGLER
Romantic Robot f 5 .95
Ross: Romantic Robots not a name I'd
come across before, so 1 was very
pleasanih surprised by this game. You're
a contestant in the Annual Magi
Marathon, so all you have to do is wriggle
your wa> u.i the finish
I he area of play covers 256 screens
and features a whole geography of
disiineil) diftereni landscapes, end) with
-vn problems. You siart the race with
three competitors but thej v«in head off
in different directions. You have (he
choice of following them or making your
own way. The paths you follow an
bordered by multi-coloured foliage —
sun ilar species to Ihose growing in Stihr?
Wttlf, Ail the lime you're racing, your
energy decreases, so you must either cat
or become jusi another pile of bones in
the lonely wastes. Food, in the form of
ice creams or cups of tea can be picked
up and eaten whenever you're on your
46
last legs (/eg*? maggtiK? Oh, n-tif! Id\.
Two varieties of ants and spider lurk
uiihin the leaves — the first arc relatively
harmless. Inn watch out for the others,
they're deadh
the graphics arc very good if a lit lie
sparse bul they do become repetitive and
the game plays on the slow side, All in
all, s respectable runner-up itir -j-q
rather than a winner. * - * *' f ' j
Dava: A very original game with fun
graphics, but it's a touch slow to play.
1 here's a targe area to explore but
illogical layout makes mapping ■ i 1 1 aa
difficult. Ii I I m
Roger: I'd like to viy this was rotten to the
hut you won't worm
if out of me
hetj
V
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Are you taking your
Spectrum seriously?
£69.95
ptus
£200p&p
Business Software
Business Bank Account £10.75
Iinog'iir will finable you lo enter debits
unrtt ' jubhoad-nfls Slatemtinis
:.iis of all subheadings
Sales Day Book f 10 75
• ; 'ogram will enable
i t>rtf(Mff si jlpmerns Of Oulstanrlinn
Program will also calculate VAT
o Business Software
The Transform Keyboard transforms your
Spectrum into a fully operational
professional machine.
• Will incorporate micro-drive interface
and power supply
• 60 keys including ftillsize space Par
• Large ENTER key
• F i j 1 1 st o p , c o mm a , sem i ■ colon , co Ion (
single delete and edit keys
• On off switch with LED
• Easy installation no soldering required
• Black anodtsed case
• Now with 3 colour printed key tops
• EMODEkev
' f€S 95 rrrWf » INf kind of u*H tovttltch
'I vk-iflbettut ttufit is certainly thm lop k*vboaftiMt
Ihf momaot. "
SINCLAIR USER JUhf 1984
NEW
Monitors
Purchase Day Book £10 75
l Keeps a complete ■■ . mi purchases
under 17 itlltr/idings This ,
also calculaifis v A
, Business Pack £25.00
•dmg jii the above piogn*«
Stock Control £1075
. a 900 lines, including details of supplier
Prooremhe»fitlls«arcKf«ci'itiesenatii rvQ .
search and update all kuss !mm one
Invoicing CIS. 00
„„ il jinn- in- i ivuiCfl*, caicufaics
discounts and VAT the program will calculate
e* Up In &0 accounts wtn
1 2SQ outstanding invoices.
. Word Processing by Tasman £13 90
| Tss.'. :oweriui Mvoui processing
program that will perform an me luncuons
'\ I arge processors The prog ram w> 1 1
| give you &4 tharaciers per line on screen.
Masterfile by Campbell Systems £15 00
i unc of. the besl database programs
<t*iefoMrieZX Spec (rum Tms program has
, uses in a smal' busirvess
Olan ov Campbell Systems £7.95
, Use your Spectrum to sell your products Dian
■•play messages in op to 11 differem
typefaces Will scroll text m ^ny direction.
64 Column Generator by Tasman £5,50
You can use this program within your Pthw
iiroijrjms to u ispljy 64 columns on SCrflen
Payroll by Byte One £19.95
Tnis payroll program will handle op to 40
employees *nd will Calculate NIC, PAVE, super
I annu^iion ^nd m<tny other deduction* This is a
very u*e« friendly program and erirflmely good
value
Sates/' Purchase Ledger Invoicing £25 00
Thin program is for use on micro -dnve only. The
program will print an invoice using a buill-in
price list and post the ■ nvoice to you r customer &
account Wilt also ptini price lists. statements,
labels eic
Tasmerge £10 95
Allows you to I rankle* data from MasterfHe Into
Tn sword enabling you IO use Taswor I
a The program allows you to specify lino
and column ol each field, For use on micro drive
only
Su partite £14.95
This '3 a new database program lhat Stores
paga* of te>tt 64 columns* 2? rows. The program
ides word processing and hid search
ties
Omnicalc 2 £14. 95
This us tha long-awaited micro-drive version of
nmninaic complete with hisiograma and many
other features.
Projector l £ 13 90
Business graphics program that will help you
(iiflstrnt your cashflow, sales expenditure in
many differ enl ways including pie line, and
histogram charts
Tasprint £9.90
Use this prr^ram with TaswordT wo toprtj i
c , djffenirti fonts on a dot matrix prlhi
MF-Print £6.95
Enables you I o set a print format for your
full-size printer with m mastertilB. Supplied
complete with masterfile for £19 95
Trans Express £9.95
Micro-drive uMiry program which will enable
you to tuckup ail your micro-drive cartridge*
Now in stock
Blank mi<rodriv© cartridges £4.95
Continuous paper £12 99
Printer ribbons f rom ,. £3,50
5?
Centronics Interface . £39.95
QL Dust Cover £500
Transform can supply a wide range of
printers, monitors, and leads for the QL.
For further details send S.A.E.
It ■• possible to connect you* Sped rum to both
Black-Green and composite Video monitors
using high revolution monitors are particularly
useful wiih programs like Tatword that use 64
columns, We supply complete instructions on
how lo connect monitors to oolh Issue Two and
Issue Three Sped rums Those monitors can also
be connected to your QL.
Phillips black and green £75 00
KagaTaxan black and groen ... £99 95
Sa nyo Med res f o r Q L £273 t>0
Printers
All the software vve Supply runs on full iue
printers I unless you are using interface 1 1 you
win require an interface lo connect your
Spectrum to a printer, the interface we supply
usa&tMrj graph >cs characters lo set printer codes
as in tasword and prints a double »» screen
clump
Centronics RS2 32 Interface £45 00
Dot matrix printers
Brother HR5 £132 00
Brother M10O9 £163 00
Star Gemini 10k £199 00
Epson RX80 FT ..... £229 00
Epson FXBO £324 00
Oaisywheel printers
Smith Corona TP I £189 00
Silver Heed EXP5QQ £284 00
Brother HR15 . £349.44
Please add £5.00 delvi*ry plus VAT to the price
of printers and moniiors. AH software prices
nctude VAT, posi and packing
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JOYSTICK JURY
BRUCE LEE
U.S. Gefa7£7,95
Dave: ( lever these ( hinese — coming up
with inai idea for a platform game
that d«>esn'l involve mines and has more
to il than just leaping aboul from ladder
to level, Actually, it's not Chinese at all,
hut it b .ib" ut Bruce Lee. so that's close
enough. You play Bruce, nut In destroy
the Evil Wizard and gain immortality and
infinite wealth.
You have to face up to all the hazards
Of going into another man's castle, like
landmines and electric holts, before
coming face to face with little Ninjas
( whit fie? Ed) and a distinctly off colour
(irccn Yamo. Inyinji into you wilh fists
anil feet flying. You can return ihe
compliment, as well as ducking down Co
avoid trouble. In each room you'll find a
number of Itdtei ns: colled enough of
them anil a passageway vilJ open
allowing you bo creep up on the Bvfl Wit,
Bui \ -i to Kung la your way
through 20 rooms before meeting htm
bead on
The probleiD is. n r s jum too cam, I'm
no black bell but I beat the game on only
my lifili attempt I here is an option to
play agains) an opponent which will keep
competitive cowards happy hui in the end
you*U probably long for a bit
of real physical contact, M/5
Rft**; This ean'l compete with i he typical
Chinese lake- away — it k-ll me «nh .m
empty feeling but not
wanting more 2/5
Roger: < ir. chopper My, knee m groin
belter I Kan poke in pocket by this
oriental offering. More chop- , ■ t t r tj
suey than Rung I u L , I rHKl
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STAY K00L
Bug Byte Software/is. 95
Roger: This curious melange of mystic,
prehistoric and serological imagery.
varying from a pterodactyl's lair, vara pi re
lemons and the occasional sewage
processing tnttalbtkni is realty just one
. competent niuhi- screen platform
game. I roltiMg from lmmi to FOODl and
jumping are both accurately controlled.
I bCTC'l a well-defined geography and a
huge assortment of life-depriving nasties.
As usual, the purpose is, to collect objects
and accrue an even higher position on the
Hall Of Scum' chart.
It's entertaining to play, I suppose, but
stunningly short on originality. You can
almost imagine Mime programmer
discovering a mixed hag of graphical left-
overs discarded in his machine memory
and deciding thai it would be a pity to
watte them II lack of some consistent
theme doesn't bufher you very much,
then by all means attempt tO VKM that
final plunge mto the eeai pn ■ ■ ■ i m
2/5 LalLfl
Dave: They just keep on coming, wave
after wve of them, the Sfamt Motet
eltines. This should -have-been -a -bu J;,
game from Bug-Byte was MM of the fen
bite the dust. 1 .'. I kt»j
flOSt: Bug Byte ate slill trying to come up
wuh another Mathew Smith type success
but Ihis Jet Sel clone just isn't the answer
I his won't even compete r-y ry jj
with Technician Ted I Kfrg
SUBTERRANEAN STRYKER
insight/ £6. 95
Dave: When I first started playing this
game J got that feeling that Id Ken bete
before. On reflection, I decided thai
i hough the game as a whole is new. it's
blagged a lot of ideas from other gutties,
Your aim hi to dcsiioy the enemy a
: Crystal which is rituntod on the
fifth level of an underground complex.
Off you go. steering your ship through
all the levels, avoiding the nasties and
ding up stove workers. Once you've
collected all the workers, you gain entry
to the next level.
The complex itself ifl made up of
nfioothly scrolling caverns — you can see
where you arc on the screen display as
well as other status information about
shields and the like, Kueh level is about
cighi screens wide and you'll find in them
a fair old selection of tullv a mm a led
living and carfhbound hazards, I ean'l see
that the game's got much (o offer the
arcade player but the graphics ate O.K.
Perhaps it's worth a took forr
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the rest of us mortal'
ROSt; Tim combined shoot 'em up and
maze game has some nicely animated
graphics. Shame the flick*
scrolling spoils the effect, s/5
Roger: Ibf name hints at this heing
Arthur Scargill's favourite Spectrum
game,
If only the enemy Power Crystal wasn't
in the hands of A untie
Maggie! 4/5
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SAM STOAT
Gremlin Graphics/*: 6 .95
Ross: Sam Staff, t rrcmlin Graphics' latest
anti-hero a. an evil little burglar. His
beady eye is trained on four houses in a
iren select area and he's intent on
purloining the jewels concealed within,
1 Ik four houses arc graded in difficulty
and you can choose which one to start
S.un of I in There are nseniy rooms per
house (sec what 1 mean ahoui a select
area), one of which con I a ins a safe, and
each safe contains a diamond.
I o get his mils on the diamond, Sam
must blow up the safe with a bomb which
he finds in each house. Then it's a case of
light the blue touch paper and retire
rapidly With the diamond and any other
jewellery in his swag-bag, he can move on
to case the nest joint. At the bottom of
the screen a an unusual timer (a
bloodometer) which the aenemie Sam has
to keep topped up by tipphng at l bottle
of Sam Sunn elixir. i hat's his excusel
Sam's not atone on his blagging jfl
but has to contend with a variety of other
creatures, most of them gnomes, Probably
got bored with sitting round the pond
with a fishing rod. the games very
colourful but the breaking and entering is
led to get the adrenalin i t t r jj
running, 2/5 I , J r*J^
Dave: What a np off. I he sleeve n
there are four houses bul they're jusi the
same room with di fie rem
mcames, so it really amounts
to four skill levels. /
Roger. Respectable, upsianding members
ol i he community would, no doubt,
disapprove of this gjamorfeatioa of light-
fin^ Spectrum tea p r r r ^T^l
leafs win krve ii J/5 L.lJ-^
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TECHNICIAN TED
Hewson Consultants/^. 95
Roger: Well cwen Wtlly ha?, had to leave
the Jet Set, apparently, changing
nomenclature and seeking bumble
employment, just like the rest of us.
The Job Centre has filed him up with a
technician's sfoa in this chip factory, hut
the broad anif erratic selection of
munchkin equipment docsn'i give much
<>l a due about whether we're talking
silicon or spuds — whichever it is we're
still talking the sine old game.
Being hamstrung with such a blatantly
derivative ami unoriginal nature isn't
going to do a ^it l'^ i deal foi Technician
Ted's popularity but, having said that, it
IB Mill a *il I -crafted slice of software.
1 lm |H<.|ir.irnnicr\ claims thai;
"graphics are ultra-smooth and collision
uon a exact" ate actually truer than
the average sales blurb's pork pics and
iriL result is an extremely difficult
platform job that demands practice and
concentration, tl is, nevertheless, best
described as a triumph of tech- |iii ■
niijue over new ideas J/5 W ■ 1 1 m
Dave: Some day all games will have
graphics thai animate this -smoothly. This
makes it one of the hot plat-
form panics I've ever seen 4 I
Ross: Willy by iiny other name ... yea, n's
another Jel Set copy? I'd like to know
who still buys them nil, If it's you, then
you could do worse
than this J/J
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PROJECT FUTURE
Microniania/£6.95
Rass: This latest offering from
Micromania is \\ classic arcade adventure
that we're mm mi familiar with on the
Spectrum. It's .set on [he SS Future, a
Urge space ship composed of 256 rooms
and spread over 5 decks. You're
entrusted with the task of destroying this
vessel hut why is never satisfactorily
explained. Still, I'm sutc there's a jolly
good reason for it, even if it's only for a
bit of interstellar vandalism. To bring off
the big bank, you have to collect the eight
destrad codes which are scattered all
over the ship and take them to the
destruet activation control.
Just to make sure things dool all go
your way. the SS Future is protected by
a selection of nasties that materialise out
of the floor and home straight in on you.
Luckily, you can blasl them back to their
constituent atoms with your laser. You'll
■ho find scattered around the ship
encrgisirs that make you unstoppable lor
I few seconds.
I Can't say lhat this is the mosi original
ime but it's done welj and it
docs have very colourful graphics. It is,
however, the first game to feature a jet
powered C5 which can be used Jo glide
around the ship — it's the only ■ 1 1 * ■
way in i ravel? 4/5 B&jJ-LH
Roger: Beam me up, Speccy. and plug in
the joystick ike the SelfDesmttt
System is gonna get me before mu i i ■
liver cirrhosi B ■ 1 1 W
Dave: Why didn't they sub-title tin
WW/ m Space".' Still, if you like running
around in mazes and collecting things,
then you won't be disap-
pointed. 2/5
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VIKING RAIDERS
Rrebtrfl7E2.50
Roger This knockabout Nordic wargame
features up to four armies slapping each
r around a map showing angular
fjords and the various bailie formations
Sword play, siege catapults and sea rf a ring
sorties are only a part of the potential
conflict,
I be hordes of Woian The Wicked.
Odin The Odious. BrunhiUla The Bold
and F.gheri I he Execrable, swarm across
the northern tundra to battle it out under
human control or computer substitution,
Hut u's nothing to eo berserk shout!
To enjoy such uncivilised and
aggressive behaviour demands a special
penchant lor ibis i\[\ ol action, because
iln graphic) ate seriously underwhelming.
I Iil kick rriii?ii be On a cerebral strategy
scale but, if ii is. 1 failed to find the fun
and my concentration swiftly withered
into plug-pulling boredom. If it's
supposed It* be about Scandinavian rape,
pillage and loot tendencies, I think I'll
stick to the crisp-
bread,. . 1/5
Have: I've always found something lacking
in SpeCCy strategy games
I or i he price though Viking Raiders is
pretty good value if you're
a strategic. rr
&5 La
floss: This war game is slow and basic fin
both senses). Still. 1 like the bit when
a army stumbles on some booze and
gets rapidly drunk. I know a t f f t ,i
how Ihey feel. / Lb* *TJ
ATTACK OF THE EMPIRE
Chibur/M.50
Roger; An csiraterresual Barb,
idbOUSC WOuhl nm K- amused by-
attempts to d est toy the Irish hall- do/en
of *At-At Walkers' gonijj walkics across
this game's continuously scrolling screen,
and neither am i
Really, putting the poor pets to sleep
with allegedly lethal laser cannon may be
pathetically easy but I'm sure a gentle
wallop across the nose with a rolled-up
newspaper would suffice.
\i least the Walkers' only drop "Smart
Bombs' and growl out '1 Jiser Bolls' in
reply, * Inch is better than leaving a mess
on the pavement tor a chap to step in...
What can I say? This dreadful load of
iub*5tarwara taootJchanga demands an
attention span of just a little under ten
minute*, that's how long it takes to gel
good at it, get tired of it and start
wondering why anybody should warn to
buy it. You can pass the interludes
between woofers by collecting rebel
soldiers' front the planet surface Inn I
really can't imagine why
anyone would want to bother. | Mfjj
0/5 JIX'J
fart: Ask your grandad about this one.
It's so old and 'orrible you keep playing
to see \i it gets I ' IT-T^
worse 1 5 L.I IST-7
Ross: Right buck to the Dark Ages with
this one — it's an old Atari VOS game
and it shOWS,
The mechanical elephants are well
drawn hut hardly flicker -free.
Pretty boring stuff. / 5
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The object of the game ts to turn every card face-up. The com
puter deals out seven columns nf cards face down the first
column containing u^[ « nc card, Iht second column two cards and
the top card from each column is then turned face-up. You
play the game hy manoeuvcring the cards around on-screen so that
they end up in descending order. However, you also have to make
sure you place a red card on a black card ant! vice versa. For exam-
ple, you can put the nine of clubs on the ten of diamonds, hut the
program won't allow you to put it on (he ten of ppndi
When you've done as much as you can with ihc cards you can
see. have a look at the bottom of the screen. Yes, you've guessed —
with only 28 cards on-screen, the rest of the pack can be used ... but
you can only gel at every third card, However, if you get stuck,
don't panic — just press the *C key and the deck will be shuffled
automatically.
There's an eighth column on-screen that's used to build up aces;
obviously, once you've got an ace in the 'ace slack' you can siun
building the vaibl up, just .is the other columns descend.
There are eight control keys to gel to know if you're going to
master this game ... so pay attention! 1 tic keys arc: "5" to move the
cursor left. T lo move the cursor right; r>' to put the 'held' card or
block of cards on to a column; ' 7' io pick up a card or block of cards
from a column; '4' lo pick up a card from the pack; '9* to turn over
the neat batch of three cards m the pack; *C to shuffle the pack;
and lastly, *y to quit the game.
All illegal moves are caught hy the program, except l hat il does
allow you to put any card in the empty columns, and not just a King.
If you don't consider this to be the 'proper' way to play Patience*
don't get angry with us ... have a little patience, and write yourself a
routine to "fix' it so that this hecomes an illegal move. And then,
write to Forum and (ell us how its done!
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Lin« 980 998 Carry out the initialisation required for lh* program The
fundi en in Jme 984 is usee to test the requested move, to
see '1 its valic Tfie rotiline lfien goes on ;o set itie screen
attributes and display the title screen
999 REK Of T UP PACF
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DA r A •* AA " , " -Jl " , "' t}i " , * h M"
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Lines 1152-11 88 copy characters from the ROM into the
user del mod graphics area so to the UDGs con lam: A'. 1
T, 3 . '4', 5 . '6 . T, 8". 9 . 10 . J'. 0" and K : note
that 10 is contained in fust arte byle This makes
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1282 NEXT j
1203 LET k-k+li NEXT I
1284 PLDT 27,1511 DRAW 0,-102
1285 LET 1-1
1288 FOR i -I TO 24
IS*?*** LET l*ti >-p* (i +291
1292 NEKT i
1293 PRINT CO|AT I t O» "r»pqr «pqr *pqr*pqr»pqr «p
qr*pqr*pq"t PAPER 6{ FLASH 0» ■*■
Lines 1T96-1793 This ralne- tonfl routine- deals out the tards ta the standard
PjtteiKe format
1300 REM SET FLAGS
1304 LET FLt-Ot LET FL2*0
1106 LET FL3-245 LET FL4-13
1307 LET FL5-Or LET FL6-0
1300 RETURN
Li rws 1300-1308 Set up the game tLags. thai leii the Spectrum if you ve
chested, tmsiried . ^e r»oidtnpj a tard, and so on.
139b REM SHJFFLE
1400 BEEP .05,201 PRINT AT 5,0| PAPER li INK
PRESS ANV KEV TO SHUFFLE.
IF INKEV*<>"" Ti-tZN GO TO 1401
IF ENKEV*-"- THEN POKE 23671 , 255*RND» fi
7|
1401
J402
O TO 1402
1493 BEEP
f i "np'
ASH tji
'6i PRINT AT 5,0, t AT 7,Bi PAPER
; FLASH &| "
t INK 2t PAPER 7^"oq ,,
S H U F L L
1409 LET X*-"
1411 FOR t-1 TO 52
14 1 J LET V*-X#U TO 11
1414 LET XS-X«l2 TO I
Mlfi I LI
I N U
PAPER 5t**<
(52"RND>
TO 12»
SHIM--TI.ED
X*-X*+V*
1416 PRIN1 AT 7,H>(
1424 LET *M-1< iNf
1426 I FT t*-p*li Y
1420 LET p*(t >-p*t*t.*t
14» L*1 p#<«M)-t*
1432 BEEP .00l,<i+6O)/2
I 4 !^ 4 MF X T 1
14^5 PS INT AT 7,T**| FAF'FR 6| »
14 56 PAUSE 5U
14^7 BEEP .M5,J6
14 38 BEER ,05,20
I * 39 PAUSE SO
144k FOR i-l TO 4
1442 LET ■■(i)-CHR* 143
1444 NEXT i
1448 RETURN
Li n«13W 144*3 Shuffle the entire pack Line 1402 increases me
randomness o< trio -'QKEing the random s#w).
making the ftWD' command mi Di I mure random'
1490 REM GET KEV PRESS
ISOtP IF INKEV*<>"" THEN
|S*i2 IF INKEV*-"" THEN
1304 LET i#-INKEV*
1SOB RETURN
GO TO 1500
GO TO 1502
Lines 1 498- 1508 Wait for a keypress and return with it in iS
1514 REM KEY TEST
1516 IF K*"" TliEN GO TO 22*J
1517 REM GOTO END OF GAHF
1510 00 S»lB ltV"Oi REM GET FRFSS
1520 IF i»-" J B™ THEN 0(1 SOB 16<>in UO TO 1516
1521 REM HnOE CURSOR RlGHl
1522 IF l*-"5* THEN 00 SUB 161 <>i QQ TO 1516
LET **p-22509
RETURN
1522 [F i*--5-> THEN t>U SUO 16101 GO TO 1516
1523 REM MOVE Cl«5Gft LEFT
1524 IF it- -6" THEN GO SOS 1640t GO 10 1516
1525 REM PUT CARD DOWN ON PtlE
1526 IF it-"/- THEN GO SOB 1620t BO TO 1516
1527 REM RICK UP CARD OR PILE
1528 IF l»*- h 9" fh+EN OU SOB 1 B6O1 BO TO 1516
1529 REM NEKT BATCH OF THREE
1530 IF i*~"4' THFtN 00 SUB 1B501 BO TO 1516
1531 REM F-JC* UP DECK CARD
1532 IF lt*"c" OR i*-"C" THEN 00 SUB 1932) O
O TO 1516
1533 REM CHEAT '
1514 IF i»-"q- OR i *-'0" THtN GO TO 1920
1535 REM QUIT GAME
1536 GO TO 1516! REM GET PRESS
Lines 1514-1536 Sort oo) *nicn key was pressed and then send pro;;
Ho* To the required routine
1599 REM RIGHT
1600 LET pp«pp*l
1601 POKE wp,15i LET *p-wp*4
1602 IF pp-9 THEN LET pp-O* LET wp-22361
1605 POKE wp, 143
1606 RETURN
1600 REM LEFT
161 J POKE wp,15i LET wp-wp-4
1612 LET pp-pp-1
lbl4 IF pp»"l THEN LET pp-7»
1617 POKE »»p,L43
161G RETURN
1620 REM PICK UP
1621 IF pp-O THEN RETURN
1622 IF rlpp,D-0 OR FLIOtt THEN
1624 LET 3-pp*4
1626 FOR «*z(pp,l) TO *<pp,2>
1628 PRINT AT m+2,*|" 1"
1629 NEXT m
1 63*> LET t-*-l# ( t tpp, 1 1 , ppt
1632 LET —21 1 LET 1-12
1634 GO BUB lOSOi REM PRINT CARD
1636 LET wt-wp
163B LET Fl 1-pp
1639 RETLWN
1649 REM POT DOWN
1641 IF FL1-0 THEN RETURN
1643 IF pp-O THEN GO BUB 1 733 1
BUILD ON ACE PILE
1 644 IF i I pp , 1 1 -0 THEN
pp,H-li GO TO 1650
1645 IF it lr (pp, 1/ ,pp>-" " THEN GO TO 1656
1646 LET tcmt-FN c (c* , z* (^ lpp,2> ,pp
1640 IF t**t<>? AND t»«t<>9 THEN GO SUB 1 7B4
( RETURN * REM INVALID ENTRV,PUT CARD BACK
1650 LET n(s-?tpp,7)+l
1652 PRINT AT 21,1 2l" "
Ib56 IF FL1-B THEN GO fO I69S
1656 LET it tpp,2I -nfi+i <FLl ,2)-i <FL I , 11
1660 LET »-l (FLl ,11
1662 LET r-4»pp
1666 FOR 1-nf* TO i<pp,21
14»6B LET l*(| ,pp)-t«C*,FLl>
.670 LET (.4-EtCi t pp) t LET t*-i*2
1672 GO SUB 105O[ REM PRINT CARD
167<l LET i»<ip,FLi J-" '"
1676 LET «•«+!
1 ^78 NEXT i
1682 LET z (FLl, I) -zl FLl ,11- I
'6B4 LET HFLi,21-l (FLl, U
k686 IF I IF LI. 11-0 THEN LET FL4-FL4 1 l GO TO
1692
1687 LET m-z (FLl t l>*2i LET z-FLl#4
16GG LET e*-a*U (FLl,n ,FL1)
1690 GO SUB lOSOt REM PRINT CARD
1692 LET FL1*0
1694 RETURN
1698 LET z(pp,2t-nf«
1699 LET z«ln4«,pp»-c*
1700 LET w-n*»+2i LET z-4»pp
1702 GO SUB 1050* REM PRINT CARD
PRINT AT 19,121 s *
LET FL3-FL3-1I GO SUB IGSO
IF FL3-0 THEN PRINT AT 19
RETURN i REM
LET FL4-FL4+U LET il
1704
1796
1707
LEI
1799
1 7 1 a
1714
1716
1 720
1722
1723
l 724
1726
FL4p*FL4~10i GO TO 1724
IF 1 >FL3 THEN LET 1 -FLJi
FOR i"l TO FL.3
LET l*<l>-l*(i-»-l)
NEKT i
LET *-19t LET a-12
LET c*«l*(l>
SO SUB lOSOi REM PRINT CARD
LET FLl-O
RETURN
15| "
GO TO 1720
Lines 1599-1726 CDdiam Itie ctrsof Mfllrol routines Lines 1600-1606 move
the cursor rigtn. and lines 1611-MM8 move the cursof left
Lines 1620-1639 alio* you lo pick up a card Linn 1640-
>726 allow yoj to place a card; Uiis routine atao cftecks 10
61
RB6IMM POW [ H
see Tide card tias been placed m a valid position — if it
Hasn't. if 5 returned to its original position on-screen,
1730 REM
1733 IF
I M4 IF
RETURN
1736 LET
1736 IF
SUB 17B4
CARD
1742 LET
1744
1746
174B
175Q
1732
1754
1736
1758
1770
1760 LET
1762
1764
1766
1770
1776
60 SUB 17B4;
BftCb CARD
LET
FRI
BO
[F
LET
LET
LET
IF
LET
LET
BQ
LET
BO
ACE BUILD
FLI-B THEM BO TG 1736
£ IFLl.llOl <FL1 ,2) THEN
1 REM INVALID ENTRY, PUT
suit -CODE t* (2)^157
CODE *»(*.n t 1 v >CODE r*<l>-l THEN 00
i RETURN s REM INVALID ENTRY, PUT BACK
• *(BUl1.J»C*(l >
I-Oi LET w-3»*uit+l
NT PT 2I,12|"
SUB 1050s REM PRINT CARD
FLI-B THEM SB TO 1776
*#<i EFLl, 1) ,FL1>«" "
z lFLl,ll-i <FH , 1> -1
t (FL1 ,2)-z (FL1 ,11
ltFLt,i»-0 THEN LET FL4-FL4-lt GO
C*-K*(ltFLL T n ,FL11
H-zlFLl, L)+2
i-FLim
SUB 10501 REM PRINT CARD
FLl-Ot RETURN
SUB I704i RETURN
Lines 17M-I77fi Pul Che card held on its ace stack, after checking (hat the
move is legal. If its invalid, the card s returned to its
original position
17BQ REM PUT BACK
1794 PRINT AT 2l,l2| " *
I 785 IF FLI-B THEN BO TO 1900
1 766 POKE wo , 1 5
17B7 LET **p-«t
176B LET pp-FLl
17B9 POKE Hp, 143
1791 LET *-4#0p
1792 FOR l-z(pp,l* TO i(pp,2>
1793 LET ««i*2
1794 LET c*-r*U ,pp1
1795 BO BUB I 050 i REM PRINT CARD
1796 NEXT i
1 79B LET FLl»Oi RETURN
16iX> LET w-I9i LET B»12
1B02 LET FLl-G
1B03 GO SUB lOSQt REM PRINT CARD
1904 RETURN
Unci 1730-1804 An invalid move causes ttus routine to oe called, returning
the card to its original position,
1950 IF FL1O0 OR FL3-0 THEN RETURN ( REM At
READY HOLD INS A CARD
1952 LET FLl-9* LET t*-I*<l)
1634 LET K-2li LET z-12
1955 PRINT AT 19,12;"
1B56 GO SUB 105Ot RETURN
1957 REM PICK UP «. DISPLAY CARD
1 B5€i
1959 REM NEXT 3 BATCH
I860 IF FL3-0 OR FLIOO THEN RETURN ( REM CA
r"T TURN OVER BATCH
1961 IF I-FL3 THEN LET 1-0
1B62 LET 1* 1+3
♦963 PRINT AT 21,12|"
!Co4 BO SUB I960
1866 LET n-19j LET z-12
1967 IF 1>FL3 THEN LET 1 -FL3
:869 LET w-19i LET *-12
1B70 LET c*-l*U >
1873 GO SUB 10501 RETURN
1B74 REM TURN OVER BATCH fr PRINT
TOP CARD UN DECK
i860 IF FL3*2 AND FL5-0 THEN BO SUB lB90i RE
TURN
1B82 IF FL3-1 AND FL6-0 THEN BO SUB 1693
1684 RETURN
line* 1&5-0 1884 Pick up tne top card from the rjf ck and display it as IN
'held* card Note thai you can't see any ui ifie cards below
it until you've decided where you want to put it.
1990 OVER li PLOT 9l,20i DRAM l,Ot DRAW O.Bl
DRAW 24, 0% DRAW 0,-i( OVER O
1891 LET FL5— li RETURN
1893 OVER ll PLOT 93, IBi DRAM -l,0i DRAW O.B:
DRAW 24, Oi DRAW O.-li OVER O
1894 LET FL6-I1 RETURN
Lines iaso-18^4 Remove trie 'under cards' of the deck, once 1 card lias been
selected .. . just like a real deck or cads?
199B REM TURN OVER
1900 LET c*-i*Hll,i(*Ml-n
1902 LET *-r tf 111*2
NEW
1904 LET 1-411*4
1906 GO SUB 1030 i REM PRINT CARD
1907 BEEP .03,20
19DB RETURN
Lines 1B98-19Q8 Turn over the next batch ol thfte canfe
19 IB REM QUIT
192^ BORDER 2
1921 BO SUB 4000 I REM LOSE
1922 PRINT AT 17,0,,,,,,,,,,
1923 PRINT AT 19,0* PAPER 61"
Lit Me r game 7
1924 00 SUB l50Oi REM SET PRESS
1925 LLS
1926 IF 1*="/" Oh i*-"V" THEN
M PLAY NEW GAMb
1927 STOP
Mow tbDut *n
BQ TO 2001 1 RE
TO Linn 1918-1927 Qui! the cur-ant yamu and as* il you'd like to play another
1930
1932
1936
i*?*o
1942
L944
1946
1948
1950
1952
1951
1936
REM CHEAT SUBROUTINE
IF FLIOO THEN frfcEP .05,20* RETURN
PR 1 NT AT I 9 , 1 2 [ "*
LET FL2-FL2+L
FDR 1-1 TO FL3
LET t*-l*fi 1
LET «hf-l+INT (F L 3#RND)
LET lfdl-ltfsh' 1
LET l*t*M>-t*
NEXT 1
BO SUB 1B60«
BEEP .05,201
REM NEXT
RETURN
BATCH
Lines 1930- 1956 This routine allows you to ctoU jnd snuflie the cards
you've got left in the pack Ttiis means yDU often find that
mischevious card that never seems to come up!
2000 GO SUB 11001 BO SUB 1OO0
2001 REM INITIAL. ] BE 1 SET UP PACK
2002 GO SUB 1400: REM SHUFFLE
200* BO SUB 1300i BO SUB 1200
2005 REM BET FLAGS 1 DEAL CARDS
2006 LET t*p-22577i LET pp-4
2007 POKE wp-,143
Z010 PRINT AT 19,0 1 "DECK CARD 1 M l PAPER 7ft
tt "
2011 PLOT 94,16* DRAW 0,flr DRAW 74, Ol PLOT 94
,18t DRAW -2,Oi DRAW 0,8i DRAW 24,Oi DRAW 0,-
2 1 PL01 92,2Q( DRAW *2,Oi DRAW 0,8t DRAW 24,0
■ DRAW 0,2
2012 FOR i-4 TO 13 STEP 3
20I4 PRINT AT 1 ,0| INK 2t
2016 NEXT i
PAPER 7\ 'ttt'
2016 PRINT AT 21 ,0t "HELD CARD =
2020 BEEP ,1,36* BEEP .1,20
2022 60 TO 1516* REM SET PRESS
Lines 2OO0 2022 Cat) all the subroutines required to play ine game. Lines
201 0-201 8 draw (he deck and ace slacks
2100 REM FINISH ROUTINE
220O PRINT AT 17,G, ,,,,,,,, ,
2207 PAPER Zi INK 7
2208 PRINT AT 1 ,0| > tpqr »pqr »pqr wpqr *pqr»pqr *
pqrapq'i PAPER 6; FLASH 0| J "
2212 PRINT AT 17, 0| BRIGHT 1| PAPER 4t INK O t
" WELL DONE VOU HAVE FINISHED
2214 PAPER 4i I NK O
2216 GO SUB 3000
221B IF FL2-0 THEN GO TO 2221
2219 PRINT AT 19, Oi PAPER Si" but you did "
t BRIGHT l|" CHEAT "1 BRIGHT 0( " "| PAPER 7|
INK 2iFL2j FLASH Oj PAPER 3t INK Of" tie« H i
2220 IF FL2>1 THEN PRINT PAPER 3r"»"[
2221 PRINT PAPER 5t TAB 32 t 80 TO 1923
Lines 2100-2221 This 1$ the ' end o' game routiiM, announcing to all and
sundry whethiet you have won or not, and how otien you
cheated 1
2999 REM WIN
3001 RESTORE 31O0
3003 FOR i-1 TO IB
30O5 READ 1 t p
3007 BEEP I/5,p-24i BEEP I ,p
3009 NEXT i
3011 RETURN
310O DATA .2, 22, .1,22, .25, 27, .25, 27, .23, 29,. 2
5. 29,. 4,34,. 1 T 31,, 2, 27,. 1,27,. 2 ,31,. 1,27,. 2, 2
4,, 5, 52, . I ,32, .2,29, . 1,26,. 4, 27
Lines 29993100 Play ifle tune thai accompanies a winning game,
3997i
3998t
3999 REM LOSE
4O01 RESTORE 410O
62
■
m.
MACSEN
SOFTWARE
s
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CENTRAL
-^^duuaMMi
Wft
PROGRAM POWIR
BEEP 1 / 3 , P
40O2 FOR i-l TO 9
*004 READ 1 ,p
*0O6 BEEP l/15,p-24i
400Q NEXT I
40 I O FOR 1-1 TO 7
Kill BRIGHT 1
40 '.2 LET k-z (i , 1J-1
4-M* FOR j-=l TO k
40J6 LET c*-Jt*l J ,i i
40IB LET **j+2
4020 LET 1-4*1
4021 SO SUB 1050
4022 NEXT j
4023 NEXT i
4028 BRIGHT 0* OVER O
4030 BORDER 4
4032 RETURN
4100 DATA .4,27*. 4, 26, .4,27, .4,26,. 33,27,.
22, . 35, 23, . 3, 23,. 6, 20
Linei 3998-4100 Ptay me tune that accompanies a losing game This routine
also upturns ill the undismayed cards in :he deck
30OO SAVE pat. one*" LINE 1
50O5 VERtFY -p«t 1 •flew''
Linn 5000 5005 Comprise the 'SAVE' rout m a This can be easily modified to
work with M>trodrives. using 'SAVE *"m";1 'patience" and
soon
6000 PRINT AT 9 t B; BRIGHT l f PAPER 6; INK 3; "
•l PAPER Ij" CONTROL KEV3 " ; PAPER 6e " "' I PR
INT
6001 PAPER 5
6002 PRINT " 5 LEFT" t "B RIGHT'' | TAS 32
6O05 PRINT " 6 PUT DOWN-,"? PICK UP" i TAB 32
6010 PRINT * 4 PICK UP FROM DECK " | TAB 32
6015 PRINT " 9 NEXT BATCH OF THREE "(TAB 32
60 IB PhPER 4
6020 RETURN
Unw W0P-M20 Print up the delsils of the control keys needed to play the
game
POWIR MAN
L
By B Hobson
Jatmin'i iMWfcand
once ■gain he's
matched against lti#
might of the machine
Cdda moen monittn.
There are $ levels till
you gain an ox Ira HI*,
to there's plenty of
opportunity to
practise your arcade
■fcUl*.
Just when you thought that Jetman had been pensioned off, he pre-
pares* to make a Comeback, Yes, the star of sereen and monilitf.
Jttmmtua returned bom the comfort of hi^ South t oast g eria tric
hOttSC, forsaking all thoughts of a weekly pension, lo grace your
Spcctrums once more.
His current exploits invoke him in collecting ohjecLs such as
spanners, shovels and clamps, no douht with the intention of mak-
ing a n c* tra boh or two as a m os >n I igh t i n£ m otor mecha n ic. ( Th est
are iitird limes — Ed.) That or his bath chair is due for a service,
! 'nforlunalcly. Jetmtnt'n twilight years are nut destined to be
totally trouble free. The terrible lun at monsters arc mil to thwart
him (OK, this tart the Worthing yOM know anil love, bul we RCVCt
promised realism).
You control Jeiman-w'nh the following keys: A — up. /. — down,
M — right, N — left. If yi »u let our old chum touch one of the lunar
monsters, you'll lose a life and you Ofily have three at the stari.
However, if you manage to reach level 5, you'll noi only guin td
extra Life but you'll deserve a golden handshake, At I'.Swecannnk
make it as far as level .1 rjcrorc Jeiman gives up the ghost,
So. reach for the Grecian 2000 in J don't take an age typing in
the program in the old man yet!
5 TLEAP 450?3S
l -J Lf.t hsi-0
It. PfslNl PLASH i(A' ...,,,. MAM"
BR I SI U Ol IWVF>" OVER Ol FLASH ff
I |
VTt W> SOB B50<
'B bU ViUH 9»HmJ
40 PAFER 7c INK 1 i
tURDER 1 I CLS
Lines 5-40 TtiE ooening lines tower Ramtap to prepare tor ifw machine
code which will print and animate the lunar mcn$1er$ Then
prim ihe 'Please Wan message and call up the 3 subroutines
which sel up the machine code, graphics and instructions
REM SET VARiAM
50 LET |
60 LEI *t-Oi LET ot»-Oi LET I i -4
7o LET lfc-1
F-APER 61 ■ "[ ■ NEHT
PAPER 6) AT 21 t f 1
, If 'SCORE-- 1 «
Line 45-70 Set up the initial variables, sc-store, le-level, obobjects and
1 1 -lives llyoutindtriegameatoucrttniiriciiy you can
itiways give yourself more lives
REM PRIW bCREEN
1 till blib SfXMJ
2&Q FOR F»0 !U 6J1 PRINT
I
206 FOR f-0 TU ^li PRINT
"t! NEXT t
PRINT PAPER 7. | INK 7|AT
j At 1,1B["H1 SCORE-jJ.*
210 PR INI PAPER 7 1 INI 7iAT 2 J , 1 9 j "OBJECTS
"(Olj
220 PRINT PAPER 7; iNh 7tAT 21 ,1» 'LIVES- "
240 PRINT PAPER 6jAT 21,71" "|
23Ci FOR rii-1 TO 1 1 I
260 PRINT PAPER 6( INK 0|*t*I
270 NEKT n
2SO FOR -f-o TO 235
2^0 PLOT f,?i DRAW INH 3tO,5l N£*T f
IvO LET k-17i LET y-15
310 FOR f-10 TO SO STEP 3
320 PRINT FLASH 1 1 AT 10, 12| "LEVEL rt M
330 BEEP .08,*t BEEP ,05,f
340 NEXT f
3SO PRINT AT 10,1:
40O GO SUB 4300
hmh
Pnni the ii'si screen. Lines 290-290 print itie time bar at ibe
rj&TtomDlihe screen
412
415
420
425
430
4 S3
4 4
445
450
453
46
463
4 70
475
480
485
6 THEN
497 IF
MAIN GAHE
STEF -1
INK 7|0,3
REM
fOR t-233 TO
PLOT t,9i DRAW
LET p-3276*.
BO BUB 3O0O
IP i~IG3 THEN
IF 1-1B7 THEN
LEI p-65022
QO SUB 3r>
IF J-I-7V tHI-N
LET u-65276
GO SI lb 7000
IF 1*199 THEN
GO SUB 3O30
RANT>DHIZE U6R 43i^36
IF ATTR fx,y+l}<>36
00 SUB 7000
ATTR (*c« t yvt^57 THEN
P .00^,4, GO SUB 450O
4BB IF ATTR <mn,yv1*;37
490 NEXT t
300 GO TO 7000
3100
OR ATTR (xM.yllOS
BEEP .05, It BEE
THEN OO SUB 4000
Line* 41 Z- 500 The mam game routine in which the lime bar is reduced (line
420), the keyboard scan subroutine is called lime 430
keyboard scan subroutine iscaJied time 430) and other
subroutines are caned 10 make the movements, etc
3000
30 10
■< 120
30 SO
iAT
3060
3o 70
S'^BO
3090
*, I 00
£l IO
■ir<i
313*,'
'j4u
H30
-I60
REM
LET
IF l>191
RETURN
PRINT
n-I ,yi
(lOVEriENI
I»IN p
ROUTINES
RETURN
IF v r > f«N
LEI y-V-t
RETUftN
tf X>16 tHEN
h-hM
RE t URN
II ,, .4 1 1 It n
I Et K-!. I
RETURN
IF y^ZS THEN
LET /*"¥»!
THEN LEI l«i-A4
INH OiAT «,¥i
"tAT **2,yi
RETURN
RE TURN
RFTURN
RETURN
64
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Lines 3000 3180 Tfvs subroutine scans the keyboard airmen updates
Jetman's position.
4000
RE« PICK UP OBJECT
RANDOMIZE
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BEEF . U5 , I s BEEP . 0«? , 4
4<H0
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4015
LET ata^ob' 1
PRINT PAPER 2, Ir* 7, AT 1.7|»ctAT 2l,2?
1 ob
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IF ob-IO THEN GO TO ASOO
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41 <*!•
RF 1 URN
Lines 4(100-4040 Th.s routine p>cks ur an orJiectanitTnpn increase* yoir r
s cor e It also c freaks to s ee if yo u ' we corn p lete d your [ash.
4»M> REM PRINT OBJECT ON SCREEN
4563 RANDOM I ZE
4SK> LET ex-4+rNT [RND»13)
4515 LET yy-2+lNT CRND»2*t
4520 BEEP ,009,3
4325 RANDOMIZE
4330 LET •»-CHR* H3fi*lNT <RND*3M
4340 PRINT INK IjAT Kx,yy|«*
4340 RETURN
bnei 4500-4560
Positions [tie ociects 1i> be col ecled at random
on the
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5000
REM
Ft»E MACHINE CODE
50O 1
REM
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5003
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60OO
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you «nrjw ho* well you fared
Lines 6500-6550 OK, so you ve naoe il lo a new level — this sufif outire
prepares tor Itta ne alone
?ooo rem i nose a l jfe
02 TOR t-0 TO 30i NEXT t
«I0S f LIR f=5ri TO STEP 5
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lakes away a I if* and checks to see if you've run oul
Qin-n-i fVf-r-i nAUHINE CODfc
BfniS LET !*-.■'»
BOlO FOR n«43096 TTJ *S056+17e
902O REftU Ml POKE n t *s LET a-***
9030 NEWT n
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15,221 ,35,24,215,^71,33,80, I 95, 221 , 12c, ,v, Z54,
^33,aWii ,22 1 , 1 34 , /.* 254 , 255 , 40 , 4 , 254 , 31 ,32 , S , 22
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bOa<j UATA 126,2,237,68,221,119,2,221,126,1,23
4 , 2, «0 ,4.234,17, 72,0,221 ,237,66,221 , i 16
i ,126,f>,22i . 1 ■4,2,221, 119,0,221, 126,1 ,22
1
»W1 OATH 134,3,221,119,1,14,144,221,203,4,
6,40, )*J, 2? 1 , 703,4,190, 62 ,6,129, 79, 24,4,221,20
** i "■■ , 3-4 271 1 Jit
•>ATA 4)7U3, I -»l ,1Vn, 56, 50, 143, 92, 221 ,S6, 1
,o. . ,2»H, 122,2)5,221 ,126,0, 1,715,
BU"'i}fii. 1,16,236,221,
?i . , 195.49,176
Lines SQCHMH 10 Tms is ?he machine corJedaU
8900 KEM RBAPHfCS
flSOS LET «*o
B310 FOR t>*'ISR '* TO USA "1 •
9S2C READ st AOfE n,«i LET ■ -*«+«
9530 MEKT n
9340 IF m- 17869 I HEN BEEF l,4i PRINT AT I",
I; ERfcOP IN DATA FRC1H 4. t Nf 854*0"* SfUlt
9530 RETURN
9560 DATA 0,0,3,13,63,231,231,63
9370 DATA 0,0,192,240,232,231,231,237
036O DATA 13, 15, 6T, 55, 24o,253, 235, 24*"7
059O DATA 74n t 74ci, 252, 236, 13,^35..
S600 DATA 195,195,193,192,192,192,0,0
66 1 o DA TA 193,193, 131,3,3,3,0,0
B620 DATA 1W2, 192, 1^5,207,253,231 ,23 1,6 J
B630 DATA 5,3,193,2*3,233,231,231,2!
S640 DATA 1 5 , 15, 63 ,35, 240 ,253, Z55, 207
BA50 DATA 740,240,752,236,13,233,253,243
6660 DATA 3,3,1,0,0,0,^,"
8670 DATA 192,192,129,0,0,0,0,0
9690 DATA 28,62,69,61.23.123,251,27
9690 DATA &:►, 127,96, 15,96,229,0, 10
870O DATA 36 ,60, 24 t 24, 24 , 24 ,60 ,36
97 JO DATA 1^4,16,16,16,16,124.124,56
87 20 DATA 28,48,112,216,10 . 1
Q730 DATA 66,66,231,235,231.231.255,231
S7#0 OATft 29,9.60, ^6,32, 52,36,60
8 750 DATA 24, 24, 6'*, 90, 24, 36, 76, 1 02
Lines 8500-8750 These sfll up ihe Usee Defined Grapmcs *rnch are littefftj
Throughout the program. Asa guide, 105a: inlograptics
mo depress Gaps Stmt'9 ana then the reqwf ed character 11
will t*i«n appear as a graphic Give >U go - you could enc up
with a mutant Jtlmw.
9000 REM INSTRUCT IONS
901M If'KIJUV it PAPER 1) If* 7: CLB
9020 PRINFT PMPEft *t 1 «► OlftT I,10|" J
fl N H
9i>23 PRINT 1 TAB 7 j "Wr 1 t * "n by 9,H08SON"
9030 PRINT |"C+n yern h«lp JE IMAN to -void 1
h*«Qon fihon*t«rB and collect up th*ubj«Lt« win
4ppa*r «t random,'
904ft PRINT j'Ycu mitt tollftt TE*» <rt*t«t
Sto r Hch the n#*t tr^wl."
SO PW1MT ';"Th» moon «onit*rt lionivtr , mt
Ida th»re b«st to atop you, **th«y inc«
«■» by ONE on ttch]»y»l . "
9060 PRINT t'Vou h*v* FOUR hvtt plu* ON
Eaxtr* 1 1 f * t+ you r«ch IvvalFtVE."
7Q PRINT LI; TAB 3j PAPER 6f INK Oj " ANV
TO CONTINUE "
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Troubles homin* Pete says: This is a rather nice bit of
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checks tosecif Jctmiin is akmi EO fall off the edge of the screen.
But you can avoid jilt those Mih-routiites hy checking and up-
dating in one line, Sue v, h;ii y< >u think of the Following:
LET *-l+{INKVS='Z AND i<T7|>-(IN«m- -V AND i>4,
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after typing in a lifting,? (let you've never sent a pro-am in 1 hound, At
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Publisher, journalist and author of over 50 computing books. Tim Hartnell reckons he owes it all to
Uncle Clive, Sue Dertham finds out why ...
"I gucvs it alt Mailed soon after
] came to London from
Australia back in 197°. You
could fed" Ihm computers
we re goi n g t < > he the L ncul big
thing', but there was no way I
could afford a second -hand
Commodore PET for £4001
Bui then, in ls)80. Sinclair
Research launched the ZX80
for £ I H> and it all became
possible."
Five yean on. lim Hartnell
now runx the publishing
company. Interface
Publ leal tons, and has written
over SQtHtef for many micros,
including si* or seven loi the
Spectrum. Bui his main claim
to fame must Ik: the uniting of
Sinclair users under the banner
of ihc /XKO ZX8 1 Users'
Club, com pie I e with its own
computing nagwdne,
Interface It was the first
magazine Vilely dedicated to
ihe home computer user.
"1 think it's funny to look
h;*cls on those days — I
remember writing in Interface
that there was no point in
giving users more than IK as
no-one needed that much
memory! It was all so expensive
then anyway. Sinclair Research
wns charging £ J 6 for a gadget
to hold the RAM packs and
£12 for each 'Kr
-|1 Club was first
advertised in a three-line entry
in the hack of PCI* -and I
remember thinking it might
take a few months to take off
and not to be too disappointed.
I hat's how link f knew'
Within six weeks, ihe club had
V'MMl members!
"For the first few months. I
did a small newsletter and
approached a publisher frith a
mcw (o bringing out a 'proper"
magazine. But they turned out
to be a bunch of crooks who
just wanted to bleed the
membership dry. so I ended up
doing the Whole ihmg myself.
"The whole operation was
run from my home ~ wherever
you looked there was a mess of
typesetting and computer
printout! It became so difficult
to run thai in the end I went cx-
direeiory and used a mailing
address. Anonymity is u
wonderful thing at rimes!"
Of course, being a
computing personality does
have its ad van l ages.. ' I
remember being lhil- ol tin- iitsi
people to gel a look al the
ZXS I and Spectrum. When I
got my hands on the Spectrum,
ilieie were only three in
existence outside Sinclair
Research and two had already
broken. During ihc time 1 had
it, I was half-way through a
program and I'd lost the power
pack — 1 ended tip wiring up to
the power pack from an Acorn
Atom. Of course, as soon as
(he smoke started appearing I
unplugged it all ... but it still
worked!
What do you reckon to
Sinclair Research's approach
to Ms prinlueLs? "Well, if 1 was
to tell you thai way liaek in
I °4it), I was a*ked to check out
the machine that was to
become Ihc ZXB l and 1 had a
few problems with ihe ItiK
memory add-on. I doubt you'd
be surprised Bui, at the time. L
was a bit upset to find I'd lost
all my programming in what
was probably the world's first
CVtW recorded ' white- oul' ,, to
(he point thai I phoned up
Altwasser (the mam designer
of the ZX81 and Sot-arum)
and told him. f le said. "I think
you're asking too much of it.
Tim.", so nothing was ever
iU iik and for a year, users had
to put up with losing their
programs. Of course, the
boffins up at Sinclair Research
had i In device bolted down on
the bench and operated with an
industrial power supply — in
othco words, ii wasn'l designed
for human bcirii
"1 suppose J know why
people like me go along wiih
the situation, though, I enjoy
being part of the whole Simian
discovery process' ... I think
Sinclair users just want io help
the company get ii right. But
it's ,i fast moving tadutrj tod
ihese things should be put io
rights nowadays be I ore the
product comet on) But. it
defence, it's also a young
industry ... and, although we're
talking about the Z XKO and
ZX81 as if they're pan of
ancient history, in real terms it
was only a couple of pairs < if
sneakers ago!"
How about all the hooks
you've written? "Well, I guess
(hat my success as a publisher
and author is all down to Uncle
Clivc's/XHO (like I'd Written
Mtikinft IhfMastQJ )t>ur
/A 80. 1 never looked back I
haven't had a really good
review OffooeoJ my books in
the UK lor years ... and it does
hurt me. On the Other hand, it's
pleasing to know I ha I IV
encouraged a In of
programmers "
And whai of ihc future?
"Well, the Spectrum will he
with us for many a year ... in
whatever form] Hut I'm not
nirt piogramming will ever be
like the 'okl days', d IBM)
sound silly, hu I I used to enjoy
finding out all about the ZXHO
while I balanced a frozen milk
carton | > h on [tip to
cool it down?"
BREAK IN THE CIRCE
KVis taking a break from
cornering computer
celebretiev but we'll be back
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very own questions! I et us
know whoyuu want us to
ambush, and suggest the
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